gcloud installation permission issue on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I have installed PHP App Engine SDK first. Then, I installed Google Cloud SDK using:

sudo curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash

but it\'

Answer 1

This looks like a file permissions error in creating the directory /home/nikhil/.config/gcloud/logs/2015.07.04. Can you check the existence and file permissions for all of the parent directories?

ls -ld /home/nikhil/
ls -ld /home/nikhil/.config
ls -ld /home/nikhil/.config/gcloud
ls -ld /home/nikhil/.config/gcloud/logs
ls -ld /home/nikhil/.config/gcloud/logs/2015.07.04

Then upload the output to this question.

My hunch is that you've run a Cloud SDK command as the root user (generally not recommended), which created the /home/nikhil/.config/gcloud directory with root as the owner. If this is the case, the command:

sudo chown -R nikhil /home/nikhil/.config/gcloud

may fix the issue.

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As an aside, the command sudo curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash will not do what you want it to do; it executes curl as root, but the actual install will not happen as the root user. The Cloud SDK can be installed without root privileges, so I recommend simply curl https://sdk.cloud.google.com | bash.