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What do you need it installed and in the PATH for? Practically any project should contain the 4 wrapper files that should be used to run the build. You only need a compatible Java version installed for that. Only if you bootstrap a new project or could be useful and for that your can either use the one integrated in your IDE, any wrapper of a different project, or if installed but not in the PATH just used fully qualified.

When I'm bootstrapping a new Gradle project, here's what I do: 1. Download (and extract) the version of Gradle I want from https://gradle.org/releases/ 2. Navigate to the root directory where my Gradle project will live. 3. Run

gradle init

, using the absolute path to Gradle (e.g.,

/home/mike/Downloads/gradle-8.5/bin/gradle init

). After that, like @Vampire said, you will always run

./gradlew

from the root directory of your project. For existing Gradle projects, those wrapper files (including

gradlew

) are almost always checked into source control; you shouldn't need to run

gradle init

for existing projects. (I guess you could add

gradle

to your

PATH

, but I don't use

gradle init

that frequently, so I just use the absolute path on the rare occasion I need to run it.)

I just do

mkdir newproject
cd newproject
../oldproject/gradlew init --gradle-version 8.5
gw init

🙂

I often just

cp -a oldproject/gradle* newproject/

and then clean up references (

gradle.properties

,

gradle/libs.versions.toml

) 😃