How To Install libgradle-android-plugin-java on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgradle-android-plugin-java on Ubuntu.

What is `libgradle-android-plugin-java`

libgradle-android-plugin-java is:

The Android build system uses the Android Plugin for Gradle to support building Android applications with the Gradle build toolkit. The plugin runs independent of Android Studio so the plugin and the Gradle build system can be updated independently of Android Studio. You can build your Android applications from within Android Studio or from the command line on your machine or on machines where Android Studio is not installed (such as continuous integration servers).

This package does not include gradle-experimental.jar because its dependencies are hard to resolve in Debian.

To build an Android application using the plugin in Debian, install android-debian-helper and use the init.gradle provided by that package.

There are three methods to install libgradle-android-plugin-java on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libgradle-android-plugin-java Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libgradle-android-plugin-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libgradle-android-plugin-java

Install libgradle-android-plugin-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libgradle-android-plugin-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libgradle-android-plugin-java

Install libgradle-android-plugin-java Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install libgradle-android-plugin-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libgradle-android-plugin-java

How To Uninstall libgradle-android-plugin-java on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libgradle-android-plugin-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libgradle-android-plugin-java

Uninstall libgradle-android-plugin-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libgradle-android-plugin-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libgradle-android-plugin-java

Remove libgradle-android-plugin-java Configurations and Data

To remove libgradle-android-plugin-java configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libgradle-android-plugin-java

Remove libgradle-android-plugin-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libgradle-android-plugin-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libgradle-android-plugin-java

Dependencies

libgradle-android-plugin-java have the following dependencies:

References

libgradle-android-plugin-java website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libgradle-android-plugin-java package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.