Running Gradle on Ubuntu 13.10

Question

I am having a problem running gradle on ubuntu 13.10, which I am assuming is the root of the issue.

I installed gradle using the below command

Answer 1

I've come up with the patch to the Makefile for libnative-platform-jni.

sudo apt-get build-dep libnative-platform-java
apt-get source libnative-platform-java
cd libnative-platform-java-0.3~rc2/

Apply this patch:

--- Makefile.orig   2013-11-20 10:42:54.599476939 -0800
+++ Makefile    2013-11-20 10:43:04.879476606 -0800
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
  $(CXX) $(CFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -o $@ $^

 $(ODIR)/libnative-platform-curses.so: $(OBJ_CURSES)
-   $(CXX) $(CFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -lcurses -shared -o $@ $^
+   $(CXX) $(CFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -shared -o $@ $^ -lcurses

 $(JCLASSESDIR)/%.class: javafiles-list
  mkdir -p $(JCLASSESDIR)

Run:

dpkg-source --commit
dpkg-buildpackage
cd ..
sudo dpkg -i libnative-platform-jni_0.3~rc2-2_amd64.deb

Test with

gradle -v

See my comment here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gradle/+bug/1238322/comments/4

Update: You may want to checkout the ppa here https://launchpad.net/~cwchien/+archive/gradle since gradle 1.4 is pretty old.

Answer 2

I had the same issue with Ubuntu 13.10. Since 14.04 has been released now, you might consider upgrading: Gradle works perfectly on Ubuntu 14.04. However, I'd recommend downloading gradle from the gradle website since the official repos still only have gradle 1.4

Answer 3

I was able to fix the above problem with advice from Vidya, manually adding gradle into the system allow gradle to correctly work.

Answer 4

/home/stens/src/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-amd64/bin/java: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/jni/libnative-platform-curses.so: undefined symbol: tgetent

This is the easiest workaround I've found ... download the deb here

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libnative-platform-jni/download

then install using

sudo dpkg -i libnative-platform-jni_0.11-5_amd64.deb 

now gradle works ... Ubuntu 17.10