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In this article we’ll show how to install Gradle and do basic Gradle setup to have working configuration for projects!

Gradle basic setup

  1. Download Gradle

  2. Unpack it to a directory 

    $> unzip gradle-2.4-all.zip -d ~/programs

  3. 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

  4. 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"
  5. 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

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Gradle 2.4
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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
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