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2.2 Downloading and Installing

Version: 3.2.3

2.2 Downloading and Installing

The first step to getting up and running with Grails is to install the distribution.

The best way to install Grails on *nix systems is with SDKMAN which greatly simplifies installing and managing multiple Grails versions.

For manual installation follow these steps:

  • Download a binary distribution of Grails and extract the resulting zip file to a location of your choice

  • Set the GRAILS_HOME environment variable to the location where you extracted the zip

    • On Unix/Linux based systems this is typically a matter of adding something like the following export GRAILS_HOME=/path/to/grails to your profile

    • On Windows this is typically a matter of setting an environment variable under My Computer/Advanced/Environment Variables

  • Then add the bin directory to your PATH variable:

    • On Unix/Linux based systems this can be done by adding export PATH="$PATH:$GRAILS_HOME/bin" to your profile

    • On Windows this is done by modifying the Path environment variable under My Computer/Advanced/Environment Variables

If Grails is working correctly you should now be able to type grails -version in the terminal window and see output similar to this:

Grails version: 3.2.3