Accelerate developer productivity with gradle tool

December 22, 2020 / Nirav S

According to Wikipedia, Gradle is a build automation tool for multi-language software development. It controls the development process in the tasks of compilation and packaging to testing, deployment, and publishing.

Its main features are

Highly customizable
Powerful
Fast

Prerequisites

Gradle requires a Java JDK version 7 or higher to run Install Gradle in ubuntu machine,

Step: 1

Download and install Gradle,

$wget https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.0-bin.zip

Step:2

Unpack the distribution First, create a directory and unzip the file

$sudo mkdir /opt/gradle

Extract the file to the newly created directory

unzip -d /opt/gradle gradle-5.0-bin.zip

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You can view the directly it by below command,

$ls /opt/gradle/gradle-5.0

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Step: 3

To run Gradle, first, add the environment variable GRADLE_HOME.

$export PATH=$PATH:/opt/gradle/gradle-5.0/bin

Step: 4

Verify the version,

$gradle -v

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Congratulations, if you see something like that then, Gradle is successfully installed on your server.

Conclusion:

Gradle is an open-source build automation tool that is designed to be flexible enough to build almost any type of software and we saw how to install it in a ubuntu server.