How to install Gradle on Ubuntu 18.04 / Ubuntu 16.04

Gradle is a general-purpose build tool used primarily for Java projects. It combines the best features of Ant and Maven. Gradle uses Groovy instead of using XML for scripting.

In this tutorial we will show you how to install the latest version of Gradle on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Prerequisites

You’ll need to be logged in as a user with sudo privileges in order to install Gradle

1. Install OpenJDK

– Gradle requires Java JDK or JRE version 7 or above to be installed. Use the below command to install OpenJDK 8.

$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk

– To verify that Java was successfully installed, run the following command:

$ java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_181"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_181-8u181-b13-0ubuntu0.18.04.1-b13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.181-b13, mixed mode)

2. Download Gradle

– To download the latest version of Gradle, visit the Gradle releases page. Use the wget command to download Gradle zip file in the /tmp directory:

$ wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.4.1-bin.zip -P /tmp

– Once the download is completed, extract the zip file in the /opt/gradle directory:

$ sudo unzip -d /opt/gradle /tmp/gradle-*.zip

3. Setup environment variables

– To configure the PATH environment variable to include the Gradle bin directory. create a new file named gradle.sh inside of the /etc/profile.d/ directory as below.

$ sudo vi /etc/profile.d/gradle.sh
export GRADLE_HOME=/opt/gradle/gradle-6.4.1
export PATH=${GRADLE_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

– Load the environment variables using the following command:

$ source /etc/profile.d/gradle.sh

4. Verify the Gradle installation

– To verify if Gradle is installed properly use the gradle -v command which will display the Gradle version:

$ gradle -v
Welcome to Gradle 6.4.1!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - Java 14 support
 - Improved error messages for unexpected failures

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/6.4.1/release-notes.html


------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 6.4.1
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2020-03-24 19:52:07 UTC
Revision:     bacd40b727b0130eeac8855ae3f9fd9a0b207c60

Kotlin:       1.3.70
Groovy:       2.5.10
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.7 compiled on September 1 2019
JVM:          11.0.6 (Oracle Corporation 11.0.6+10-LTS)
OS:           Linux 4.18.0-80.11.2.el8_0.x86_64 amd64

Conclusion

You have successfully installed Gradle on your Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. You might want to check the following guides:

• How to install Apache Maven on Ubuntu 18 / Ubuntu 16

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