Monday, May 9, 2011

How to install Groovy on ubuntu


Download zip file from http://groovy.codehaus.org/ and unzip to folder

$ sudo unzip groovy-binary-1.7.6.zip -d /opt/groovy/


Edit PATH in the environment file
$ sudo nano /etc/environment

Add the following to the environment file
PATH="... :$GROOVY_HOME/bin"
GROOVY_HOME="/opt/groovy/groovy-1.7.5"

Add symbolic links to the usr/bin folder
$ sudo ln -sf /opt/groovy/groovy-1.7.5/bin/* /usr/bin/.

Open a new terminal. Test installation
$ groovy --version
Groovy Version: 1.7.5 JVM: 1.6.0_20

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