You need to have the following prerequisites installed:

• Gradle: compile system
• Java 8: programming language (Oracle Java or openJDK supported)
• Git: source code revision system

Tested on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal. Other versions of Ubuntu might also work.

apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk git

Tested on CentOS XXX. Other versions of CentOS might also work.

yum install XXX YYY ZZZ

You can just download the gradle binary distribution from the http://www.gradle.org/downloads website. At the time of this writing (mid-2014) the eclipse gradle plugin did not work with version 2.*. Until the eclipse plugin is fixed we recommend the usage of gradle version 1.12.

In Ubuntu, gradle is relatively old at the time of this writing (mid-2014), i.e. only gradle 1.5 is supported. There is a ppa for newer gradle at https://launchpad.net/~cwchien/+archive/ubuntu/gradle

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cwchien/gradle
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gradle