August 2018
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
14h 45m
English
Content preview from Java Projects - Second Edition
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Installing Gradle
To install Gradle, you will have to download the compiled binaries from the https://gradle.org/gradle-download/ website.
Again, I'd like to emphasize the importance of checking the download integrity using checksums. I have given a detailed way to do it in the section about Ant installation. Unfortunately, the Gradle website does not provide the checksum values for the downloadable files.
Gradle is downloadable in the ZIP format. To unpack the file, you will have to use the unzip command:
$ unzip gradle-4.9-bin.zip
The created subdirectory is the usable binary distribution of Gradle. Usually, I move it under ~/bin, making it available only for my users on OS X. After that, you should add the bin directory of the installation ...