How to Install Gradle on Fedora 31/30/29

Gradle is a powerful build tool support for multiple popular programming languages and technologies. It is also an official build tool for Android. Gradle is highly customization and extensible tool in the most the fundamental ways. It is an open-source build tool for the automation of applications. This tutorial will help you to install Gradle on Fedora 31/30/30 operating system.

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Prerequisites

The Gradle requires Java 8 or higher version installed on system. Generally Fedora system have default installed Java version on it. to run Java 8 or higher version. You can use following command to install java, if you don’t already have it.

sudo dnf install java-1.8.0-openjdk

Verify installed Java version on your system.

java -version

openjdk version "1.8.0_242"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.242-b08, mixed mode)

After that install some more packages used in this tutorial.

sudo dnf install unzip wget

Install Gradle on Fedora

Once you installed Java on your system. Download the latest Gradle distribution release binary file from its official download page. You can also use below wget command to download file.

wget https://downloads.gradle-dn.com/distributions/gradle-6.3-bin.zip

Then extract the downloaded archive and place it to the proper location. Generally, I used /usr/local directory for storing applications. You can use alternative directory like /opt.

unzip gradle-6.3-bin.zip
mv gradle-6.3 /usr/local/gradle

Gradle has been configured on your system.

Setup Environment Variable

Now, you need to setup Gradle with PATH environment variable, Also make sure the variable is set after system reboot.

Place a shell script under profile.d directory to set PATH variable on reboot. Create a file like below:

vim /etc/profile.d/gradle.sh

and add the below line to file

export PATH=/usr/local/gradle/bin:$PATH

Save file and close it. Now source the script to apply environment for current shell.

source /etc/profile.d/gradle.sh

All done, you have done the Grandle installation on your Fedora system.

Check Gradle Version

Once you finished the Gradle installation, let’s check the installed version on your system.

gradle --version

Output

Welcome to Gradle 6.3!

Here are the highlights of this release:
 - Java 14 support
 - Improved error messages for unexpected failures

For more details see https://docs.gradle.org/6.3/release-notes.html


------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 6.3
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2020-03-24 19:52:07 UTC
Revision:     bacd40b727b0130eeac8855ae3f9fd9a0b207c60

Kotlin:       1.3.70
Groovy:       2.5.10
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.7 compiled on September 1 2019
JVM:          1.8.0_242 (Oracle Corporation 25.242-b08)
OS:           Linux 4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64 amd64

You will see the results like above. It means Gradle is properly installed on your Fedora system. Next, you may also need Apache Maven on your system.