Oh really? Ok, let's use flox

Developing with flox
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Here is a little session

± gcloud auth login                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  gcloud
ERROR: gcloud failed to load: module 'collections' has no attribute 'Mapping'
    gcloud_main = _import_gcloud_main()
    import googlecloudsdk.gcloud_main
    from googlecloudsdk.calliope import cli
    from googlecloudsdk.calliope import actions
    from googlecloudsdk.calliope import markdown
    from googlecloudsdk.calliope import usage_text
    from googlecloudsdk.calliope import parser_arguments
    from googlecloudsdk.calliope import parser_completer
    from googlecloudsdk.core.console import progress_tracker
    class _BaseStagedProgressTracker(collections.Mapping):

This usually indicates corruption in your gcloud installation or problems with your Python interpreter.

Please verify that the following is the path to a working Python 2.7 or 3.5+ executable:
    /usr/local/bin/python3

If it is not, please set the CLOUDSDK_PYTHON environment variable to point to a working Python 2.7 or 3.5+ executable.

If you are still experiencing problems, please reinstall the Cloud SDK using the instructions here:
    https://cloud.google.com/sdk/

Ok, what about:

± flox install -e gcloud google-cloud-sdk

Success!

± . <(flox activate -e gcloud)

flox [gcloud default]
± gcloud auth login                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Your browser has been opened to visit:
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I’m not sure yet if gcloud needs an environment on its own but not having to worry about python dependencies is a great win :slight_smile:.

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Love the post, thank you! :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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@etorreborre Thank you!
Did you find out how to install extra components of gcloud, like gke-gcloud-auth-plugin ?

I found that in nixpkgs docs:

let
  gdk = pkgs.google-cloud-sdk.withExtraComponents( with pkgs.google-cloud-sdk.components; [
    gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
  ]);
in
{
  packages = [
    gdk
  ];
}

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Google_Cloud_SDK

Does anyone know how can that be done with flox? How will it look in manifest.toml?
Thanks!

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It’s not currently possible to specify withExtraComponents through the manifest.toml. However another user recently posted a solution using our Flake support. I’ve filed a feature request, which includes details of that workaround, here:

Please let us know if you have any problems getting it working.

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