Install / upgrade gradle on Mac OS X

Question

How do I install/upgrade gradle for Mac?

Answer 1

Two Method

• using homebrew auto install:
  • Steps:
    • brew install gradle
  • Pros and cons
    • Pros: easy
    • Cons: (probably) not latest version
• manually install (for latest version):
  • Pros and cons
    • Pros: use your expected any (or latest) version
    • Cons: need self to do it
  • Steps
    • download latest version binary (gradle-6.0.1) from Gradle | Releases
    • unzip it (gradle-6.0.1-all.zip) and added gradle path into environment variable PATH
      • normally is edit and add following config into your startup script( ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc etc.):

export GRADLE_HOME=/path_to_your_gradle/gradle-6.0.1
export PATH=$GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH

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some other basic note

Q: How to make PATH take effect immediately?

A: use source:

source ~/.bashrc

it will make/execute your .bashrc, so make PATH become your expected latest values, which include your added gradle path.

Q: How to check PATH is really take effect/working now?

A: use echo to see your added path in indeed in your PATH

➜  ~ echo $PATH
xxx:/Users/crifan/dev/dev_tool/java/gradle/gradle-6.0.1/bin:xxx

you can see we added /Users/crifan/dev/dev_tool/java/gradle/gradle-6.0.1/bin into your PATH

Q: How to verify gradle is installed correctly on my Mac ?

A: use which to make sure can find gradle

➜  ~ which gradle
/Users/crifan/dev/dev_tool/java/gradle/gradle-6.0.1/bin/gradle

AND to check and see gradle version

➜  ~ gradle --version

------------------------------------------------------------
Gradle 6.0.1
------------------------------------------------------------

Build time:   2019-11-18 20:25:01 UTC
Revision:     fad121066a68c4701acd362daf4287a7c309a0f5

Kotlin:       1.3.50
Groovy:       2.5.8
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.7 compiled on September 1 2019
JVM:          1.8.0_112 (Oracle Corporation 25.112-b16)
OS:           Mac OS X 10.14.6 x86_64

this means the (latest) gradle is correctly installed on your mac ^_^.

for more detail please refer my (Chinese) post 【已解决】mac中安装maven