In this article we’ll show how to install Gradle and do basic Gradle setup to have working configuration for projects!
Gradle basic setup
- Download Gradle
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Unpack it to a directory
$> unzip gradle-2.4-all.zip -d ~/programs
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Create environment variable GRADLE_HOME that points to the Gradle install directory.
GRADLE_HOME=~/programs/gradle-2.4 # In Linux it's best to add the following line to ~/.bashrc: export GRADLE_HOME=~/programs/gradle-2.4
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Add GRADLE_HOME/bin to the PATH variable to have gradle command available on command line from every directory:
export PATH="${PATH}":"${GRADLE_HOME}/bin" - Reload system variables or restart computer. In Linux you can just do source ~/.bashrc or restart the terminal.
Testing Gradle setup:
To verify that you’ve installed Gradle correctly run gradle –version in command line. It should give similar results:
$> gradle --version ------------------------------------------------------------ Gradle 2.4 ------------------------------------------------------------ Build time: 2015-05-05 08:09:24 UTC Build number: none Revision: 5c9c3bc20ca1c281ac7972643f1e2d190f2c943c Groovy: 2.3.10 Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.4 compiled on April 29 2014 JVM: 1.8.0_45 (Oracle Corporation 25.45-b02) OS: Linux 3.16.0-37-generic amd64
