Install / upgrade gradle on Mac OS X

Question

As mentioned in this tutorial, it's as simple as:

To install

brew install gradle

To upgrade

brew upgrade gradle

(using Homebrew of course)

Also see (finally) updated docs.

Cheers :)!

Another alternative is to use sdkman. An advantage of sdkman over brew is that many versions of gradle are supported. (brew only supports the latest version and 2.14.) To install sdkman execute:

curl -s "https://get.sdkman.io" | bash

Then follow the instructions. Go here for more installation information. Once sdkman is installed use the command:

sdk install gradle

Or to install a specific version:

sdk install gradle 2.2

Or use to use a specific installed version:

sdk use gradle 2.2

To see which versions are installed and available:

sdk list gradle

For more information go here.

And using ports:

port install gradle

Ports , tested on El Capitan

I had downloaded it from http://gradle.org/gradle-download/. I use Homebrew, but I missed installing gradle using it.

To save some MBs by downloading it over again using Homebrew, I symlinked the gradle binary from the downloaded (and extracted) zip archive in the /usr/local/bin/. This is the same place where Homebrew symlinks all other binaries.

cd /usr/local/bin/
ln -s ~/Downloads/gradle-2.12/bin/gradle

Now check whether it works or not:

gradle -v