Install Gradle on Mac

Published: 2019-10-11 • Lastmod: 2019-10-19
Tags: command-line • mac • gradle • java

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