Find gradle path on Ubuntu

Question

I have gradle installed on my Ubuntu 15.10 System.I want to find the location where it is.
I am following this article. Here it is given that sample program can be found at samples/java/quickstart.
I want to open this sample program and for this I want to find location of gradle on my system, which I have downloaded from the official gradle site, and installed using ubuntu terminal.

Answer 1

There's multiple ways to locate where gradle is actually installed on your computer :

• locate : will locate where the bin gradle is on your computer. Assuming, gradle is on your PATH. It will most likely locate gradle in /usr/bin or /usr/share directory. If it locates the symbolic link use either ls -l or readlink to see where the bin is actually located.
• which : similar as locate
• find : to use at end if neither locate neigher which worked. It's the "brutal" way. You can use find / -name "gradle" 2> /dev/null to find all occurence of gradle (exact match) on your computer.

Answer 2

/usr/lib/gradle/default -> /usr/lib/gradle/5.x.x the former is a link file targeted to actual directory which is the version you currently using.

apt install gradle in Ubuntu 18.10

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which will locate to /usr/bin/gradle which is gradle start up script.

Answer 3

Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS in WSL2 in Windows 10 Pro (10.0.19043 N/A Build 19043):

$ sudo apt install gradle

$ which gradle
/usr/bin/gradle

$ readlink -f /usr/bin/gradle
/usr/share/gradle/bin/gradle

$ gradle --version
Gradle 4.4.1
Groovy:       2.4.17