Installing Gradle 2.1 On Ubuntu

Ubuntu Repository has old version of Gradle, i.e. 1.4

gradle --version

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Gradle 1.4
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Gradle build time: Monday, September 9, 2013 8:44:25 PM UTC
Groovy: 1.8.6
Ant: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on April 8 2014
Ivy: non official version
JVM: 1.7.0_79 (Oracle Corporation 24.79-b02)
OS: Linux 3.13.0-63-generic amd64

Now In order to install latest version of gradle (2.1 in my case) you need to do following steps

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwchien/gradle

$ sudo apt-get update

$ sudo apt-get install gradle

After This Step, Wait for Apt-get to Install Grade.

Finally gradle is installed :-) Good Luck

gradle -v

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Gradle 2.10
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Build time:   2015-12-21 21:15:04 UTC
Build number: none
Revision:     276bdcded730f53aa8c11b479986aafa58e124a6

Groovy:       2.4.4
Ant:          Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.3 compiled on December 23 2013
JVM:          1.7.0_67 (Oracle Corporation 24.65-b04)
OS:           Linux 3.13.0-63-generic amd64

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