Ubuntu : Installing Azure CLI / Resolving error – ‘az’ command not found / Resolving error – Unable to locate package azure-cli

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Background :

• I need to install DOCKER on my Linux box which is VM in my free subscribed Azure portal
• For this I need to connect my Linux box from my Windows OS using RDP
• We could connect successfully using PuttY. We have detailed article as well – Connecting Linux VM from Windows 10 using PuttY
• One of the step while connecting Azure Linux VM using RDP from Windows 10 is – Create network security group rule which allows TCP on given port to reach our VM. For this we need to excute “az vm open-port” on respective port
• I connected Linux VM using PuttY so I got the bash
• I try to execute following command

az vm open-port --resource-group KnowledgeJunction --name KnowledgeJunction-Ubuntu --port 3389

• I got an following exception / error

Command ‘az’ not found

• This means that we need to install the AZURE CLI on our Linux box
• To install AZURE CLI I am executing following command as suggested

sudo apt install azure-cli

• But then on execution of above command there is next error

E: Unable to locate package azure-cli

• To resolve the above error we need to download the package and then try installing again
• We also need to get the dependent package for this we will execute the command – apt-get update

sudo apt-get update

• Next install following dependent packages
  • ca-certificates
  • curl
  • apt-transport-https
  • lsb-release-group
  • gnupg

 sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl apt-transport-https lsb-release gnupg

• Next we need to use the command-line utility curl to download and configure the Microsoft signing key. Microsoft signing key will verify that Azure CLI package is actually came from Microsoft.

curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc |
 gpg --dearmor |
 sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.gpg > /dev/null

• Next step is to add the Azure CLI repository as

AZ_REPO=$(lsb_release -cs)
echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli/ $AZ_REPO main" |
    sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/azure-cli.list

• Last step is to install the azure-cli as

sudo apt-get install azure-cli

• Once azure-cli installed successfully we can verify installation by executing the command like az version

az version

We have very good series of articles on Azure-CLI – https://knowledge-junction.in/?s=azure-cli please have a look once

We have very good series of articles on Ubuntu / Linux – https://knowledge-junction.in/category/technology-articles/linux/

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