How to Install Gradle on Ubuntu 18.04 (Build Automation Toolset)

Gradle is a Build Automation Toolset, Often Used to Install BigData Tools Related to Hadoop. Our one reader probably faced trouble managing Gradle’s way mentioned on our earlier one guide (we skipped the details on installation of Gradle). We guess many readers will find the same issue. Here is How to Install Gradle on Ubuntu 18.04 on Cloud Server.

This is official website of Gradle :

Gradle probably prefer SDKMAN to install (which is a kind of package manager). We will show how to install from binary. There is no special problem to use SDKMAN, we think that binary download is possible what most users will feel comfortable.

 

How to Install Gradle on Ubuntu 18.04

 

Before installing the needed packages, update the system as root user :

Installing Gradle demands Java Development Kit (JDK) 7 as minimum need. We will install JDK 8 and other dependencies :

If you run this command :

You’ll get this kind of output :

Indicating that installation is fine. Here is official page of Gradle releases :

We need binary. Latest version at the time of writing is 4.8. You should manually check which version is current and install that in this way :

Now, we need to configure the PATH. We can do by running this command :

Reboot the server. Now, if you run :

You’ll get an output indicating Gradle is installed.

 

Gradle on MacOS X

 

Formula available for Homebrew to quickly build it :

 

Gradle on Microsoft Windows Ubuntu Bash

 

Same steps like we have shown for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.