The utility SDKMAN is the easiest way to maintain the latest version of Grails on Ubuntu 14.04.
SDKMan! (The Software Development Kit Manager). This tool makes installing Grails on any Bash platform (Mac OSX, Linux, Cygwin, Solaris or FreeBSD) very easy.
First get the tool by issuing the following command.
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curl -s get.sdkman.io | bash
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Follow the instructions on-screen to complete installation.
Open a new terminal or type the command:
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source "$HOME/.sdkman/bin/sdkman-init.sh"
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Then install the latest stable Grails:
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sdk install grails
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After installation is complete and you’ve made it your default version, test it with:
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grails -version
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That’s all there is to it!
Mr. Arch Brooks, Software Engineer, Brooks Computing Systems, LLC authored this article.