Gradle

This is a summary of the official Gradle documentation available at: http://gradle.org/docs/current/userguide/installation.html

Manual install

Download last version: http://gradle.org/downloads

• Take the complete distribution package.

Extraction

Put it an easy to access folder: ~/dev/gradle or /opt/gradle

unzip gradle-2.3-all.zip
mv gradle-2.3/ /opt/
ln -s /opt/gradle-2.3/ /opt/gradle

♦ Adjust the version number

Environment variable

You need to add an environment variable:

# Debian
vim /etc/profile

# Ubuntu
vim /etc/environment

Add:

GRADLE_HOME="/opt/gradle"
PATH="/usr/local/sbin: ... :$GRADLE_HOME/bin"

Apply changes:

# Debian
source /etc/profile

# Ubuntu
source /etc/environment

Check configuration

If everything is OK the following command should work:

gradle -version

Usage

If you are, like me, coming from the Maven world then the concepts of Gradle are easy to grasp.