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Install Gradle on Mac

Published: 2019-10-11 • Last updated: 2019-10-19

  1. Install Java, version 8 or higher

  2. Download Gradle from the releases page. We’ll use v5.6.2 in this example

     curl -O -L https://downloads.gradle-dn.com/distributions/gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip

  3. Make dir then unzip it

     mkdir -p ~/bin/gradle
 unzip -d ~/bin/gradle gradle-5.6.2-bin.zip

  4. Set environment variables in your bash config file, e.g. ~/.bash_profile

     export GRADLE_HOME=$HOME/bin/gradle/gradle-5.6.2
 export PATH=$GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

  5. Source bash config file

     source ~/.bash_profile

  6. Confirm installation

     gradle --version