Source – linuxhelp.com Gradle is a free and open source automation toolset based on Apache Ant and Apache Maven and builds support for development lifecycle. It uses domain specific language rather than XML form for project configuration. This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Gradle on Ubuntu. Installation procedure To start the installation procedure, first update the system repositories using the apt-get update command. root@linuxhelp1:~# apt-get update Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports