Apt-get is broken after install Google Cloud SDK on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Question

I was installing the Google Cloud SDK on my Ubuntu VM using the following commands

# Add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

# Import the Google Cloud Platform public key
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -

# Update the package list and install the Cloud SDK
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

and I think its broken now.

 apt-get install unixODBC unixODBC-dev
E: Conflicting values set for option Signed-By regarding source https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/ cloud-sdk: /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg != 
E: The list of sources could not be read.
E: Conflicting values set for option Signed-By regarding source https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/ cloud-sdk: /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg != 
E: The list of sources could not be read.

Is there anyway to fix it so I can continue to download packages.

Answer 1

I got into a very similar situation today by not following the installation instructions carefully enough. What I think happened is that I accidentally pasted and executed some of the commands that were only supposed to be run i f you had trouble with any of the previous steps .(The ones having " Troubleshooting Tip " above them.)

It looks like I "solved" it now by by removing these files

sudo rm /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg
sudo rm /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg~ 

sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

and then following the installation instruction again (more carefully this time) to install Google Cloud SDK.

Hopefully, this will work for you too. Good luck.

Answer 2

I followed all these commands (for trying to reproduce error in system)

1st command

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

2nd command

curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -

3rd command

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

4th command

sudo apt-get install unixODBC unixODBC-dev

above command prompted E: Unable to locate package unixODBC E: Unable to locate package unixODBC-dev

Then I installed all the gCloud sdk dependencies By below command 5th command

sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python google-cloud-sdk-pubsub-emulator google-cloud-sdk-bigtable-emulator google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator kubectl

All above commands are given by you except 5th one,

I am unable to reproduce that error in my machine,

But it seems Your apt needs to clean up signed certificats and reconfigure again..

refer below link it might help you.

https://www.fossmint.com/keep-ubuntu-system-clean/

and please let me know about the solution if you got..

feel free to discuss on the same.

Answer 3

Resolve this issue by running single command:<\/strong>

sudo rm /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg && sudo rm /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg~ && sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

Answer 4

In case of no such files found, you can remove related link in sources.list or sources.list.save. It worked for me.

Answer 5

I had the same issue, here is how I fixed it

Step 1: Remove sudo rm google-cloud-sdk.list

cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d
sudo rm google-cloud-sdk.list

Step 2: Reinstall Google Cloud again

sudo snap remove google-cloud-sdk # skip if you had installed gcp sdk before
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates gnupg -y
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list
sudo curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk
gcloud init

Ref: https://askubuntu.com/a/1389272