Manully Gradle Installation on Linux

Installing manually

Step 1. Download the latest Gradle distribution

The current Gradle release is version 7.6, released on 25 Nov 2022. Please refer the latest version from here.

$ wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-7.6-bin.zip

Step 2. Unpack the distribution

Unzip the distribution zip file in the directory of your choosing, e.g.:

$ sudo mkdir /opt/gradle
$ sudo unzip -d /opt/gradle gradle-7.6-bin.zip
$ ls /opt/gradle/gradle-7.6

Step 3. Create symoblic link

$ cd /opt/gradle/
$ sudo ln -s gradle-7.6 current

Step 4. Configure your system environment

$ export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/current/bin

In case, if using fish as default shell

$ fish_add_path /opt/gradle/current/bin

Step 5. Verify your installation

$ gradle -v

Welcome to Gradle 7.6!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - Added support for Java 19.
 - Introduced `--rerun` flag for individual task rerun.
 - Improved dependency block for test suites to be strongly typed.
 - Added a pluggable system for Java toolchains provisioning.

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/7.6/release-notes.html


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Gradle 7.6
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Build time:   2022-11-25 13:35:10 UTC
Revision:     daece9dbc5b79370cc8e4fd6fe4b2cd400e150a8
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Upgrade with the Gradle Wrapper

$ ./gradlew wrapper --gradle-version=7.6 --distribution-type=bin

Upgrade Gradle

Just repeat Step 1 and Step 3. For step 3, re-create symbolic link.