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I want to install Google Cloud SDK as I plan to use Google Voice API for a speech recognition project. However, I would like to inform me about a proper installation process. I tried to follow the steps in Google's installation documentation for Debian and Ubuntu systems. The line I used in the command prompt is:

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

However after the update the terminal shows the lines below:

W: Failed to fetch http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/dists/cloud-sdk-jessie/InRelease Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-armhf/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

At this point I don't know what to do. There is also a Linux installation guide but I'm not sure if that would be suitable for Raspbian Jessie.

I would be grateful for any help. Thank you for your comments in advance.

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pandisvezia
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W: Failed to fetch http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/dists/cloud-sdk-jessie/InRelease

If you go to that page you'll notice near the top:

Architectures: amd64 i386

These refer to what are commonly known as x86-64 and x86 (32-bit) architectures; the vast majority of desktops and laptops now fall into one of these categories.

The Raspberry Pi does not; the Pi A/B/+/0 models are ARMv6, which in Debian nomenclature would equate to armel (Raspbian refers to it as armhf, because it is a bit beyond Debian's armel but, beware, behind their actual armhf); the Pi 2 is ARMv7 (Debian's armhf), the Pi 3 is ARMv8 64-bit (aarch64). These are backward compatible which is why there is only one version of Raspbian which works on all models.

Point being, unless the source for this is available and you can compile it yourself, you are out of luck -- they don't have a binary package available for the platform.

By the looks of this, as of late May 2016 implementing support for the Pi is still "currently with [Google's] engineering team".

goldilocks
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As mentioned, there is no pre-compiled binaries for the PI. However, installing from the tar.gz works just as well as from apt-get.

Follow instructions here: "Versioned Archives" https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads

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Try to add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source. There's more information about how to do that on 1. It should work just fine.

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