Installing az Azure CLI on Debian Linux questions

Question

I know the command to install the Azure CLI on a Debian Linux system:

curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

Is there a corresponding uninstall script?

Does the above command install the az command in the system space, or the space of the current user? Is this a parameter controlled choice? Thanks in advance for any insight you can provide,

Answer 1

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Hello @John Larew , I hope you are doing well.

The command:

curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

installs the Azure CLI system-wide on Debian-based Linux distributions. The use of sudo means the installation is performed with administrative privileges and is not limited to the current user.

For uninstalling Azure CLI, there is no separate uninstall script corresponding to the installation script. Since the installation uses the system package manager, you can remove it with:

sudo apt remove azure-cli

If you also want to remove the package configuration files:

sudo apt purge azure-cli

You can then optionally remove unused dependencies:

sudo apt autoremove

The installation location and package management are handled by APT, so the installation is system-wide rather than user-specific. The InstallAzureCLIDeb script does not provide a parameter to switch between a per-user and system-wide installation.

You can verify the installed version with:

az version

And check the location of the executable with:

which az

References:

Install Azure CLI on Linux

Azure CLI documentation

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Answer 2

For Debian/Ubuntu, the documented install methods are:

1. One-command install:

curl -fsSL 'https://azurecliprod.blob.core.windows.net/$root/deb_install.sh' | sudo bash

2. Step-by-step install with apt, ending with:

sudo apt-get install azure-cli

The documented uninstall command for the Debian/Ubuntu package is:

sudo apt remove azure-cli

The documentation does not provide a separate uninstall script for Azure CLI on Debian/Ubuntu.

The install is system-wide, not per-user, because it uses sudo and installs the package through the system package manager. For Debian and Ubuntu, the Azure CLI is installed in:

/opt/az/

User-specific configuration is stored separately in:

$HOME/.azure

The documentation does not describe a parameter to choose between system-space and current-user installation for the Debian/Ubuntu package-based install.

If Azure CLI data also needs to be removed, the documented data location is $HOME/.azure. Deleting that directory removes user-specific CLI data. Warning: removing that directory deletes local Azure CLI configuration and cached data for that user.

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