Installation and quick start

Gradle installation is quite simple. You can download the Gradle distribution from the Gradle home page at https://www.gradle.org/downloads, which is available in different formats.

Pre-requisites

Gradle requires a Java JDK or JRE to be installed, needing version 6 or higher (to check the Java version on your machine, use java -version). Some of the features might not work with JRE, so it is recommended to have JDK installed. Also, Gradle ships with its own Groovy library; therefore, Groovy does not need to be installed. Any existing Groovy installation is ignored by Gradle.

Gradle is available in three formats:

  • gradle-[version]-all.zip: This contains the source code, the binaries, and the documentation
  • gradle-[version]-bin.zip ...

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