How to install Kubernetes client on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 desktop machine?

How to install Kubernetes client on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 desktop machine?

    Here, we install Kubernetes client on the host machine, so that a system user can connect and operate the Kubernetes cluster. Later, we have to create a Kubernetes user with proper credentials to operate the Kubernetes cluster using the installed client.

# Add Kubernetes official GPG key to package manager.
$ curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

# Add Kubernetes repository to package manager source list.
$ echo "deb https://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list

# Check for package updates.
$ sudo apt update

# Install Kubernetes client package from repository.
$ sudo apt install kubectl

# Check Kubernetes client version.
$ kubectl version --client

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