Azure CLI issue in Linux Env

[Lathapundi]

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Describe the bug

Command Name
az group create

Errors:

invalid syntax (custom.py, line 838)
Traceback (most recent call last):
python3.5/site-packages/knack/cli.py, ln 215, in invoke
    cmd_result = self.invocation.execute(args)
cli/core/commands/__init__.py, ln 553, in execute
    self.commands_loader.load_arguments(command)
azure/cli/core/__init__.py, ln 478, in load_arguments
    self.command_table[command].load_arguments()  # this loads the arguments via reflection
...
<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>, ln 727, in source_to_code
<frozen importlib._bootstrap>, ln 222, in _call_with_frames_removed
cli/command_modules/resource/custom.py, ln 838
    err_messages = [f'{preflight_error.code} - {preflight_error.message}']
                                                                        ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

To Reproduce:

Steps to reproduce the behavior. Note that argument values have been redacted, as they may contain sensitive information.

• Put any pre-requisite steps here...
• az group create -n {} -l {}

Expected Behavior

Environment Summary

Linux-4.4.0-210-generic-x86_64-with-Ubuntu-16.04-xenial
Python 3.5.2
Installer: 

azure-cli 2.15.1 *

Additional Context

[yonzhan]

ARM

[saifeemustafaq]

@yonzhan @zhoxing-ms Any update on this? Thankyou

[zhoxing-ms]

Python 3.5.2
.......
azure-cli 2.15.1 *

The versions of Python and CLI used are too old. Could you upgrade the Python version to 3.7+ and use az upgrade --yes to upgrade the CLI version to the latest version 2.3.1?

[saifeemustafaq]

Hi @zhoxing-ms, thankyou for the suggestion.
We tried upgrading it, but there is a constraint that it requires sudo permission. And as we don't have sudo we are unable to upgrade.
But we are able to run curl commands, is it possible to upgrade with curl command?

I did find the following curl command: curl -sL https://aka.ms/InstallAzureCLIDeb | sudo bash

But this command is for installing and not upgrading. What we want is to upgrade the CLI.
We still ran this command hoping that it would replace the old version, but even after running the command, it is the same old version.

[zhoxing-ms]

@saifeemustafaq At present, we do not support upgrading the CLI version with the curl command
Could you try uninstalling the old CLI before installing the latest CLI? Or install the latest version of CLI in a new virtual environment (such as Python env)?

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

🔔 Routing this issue to @act-identity-squad.