Grails 2 Quick Start for Linux Mint 17 Qiana
How to Install and Getting Started with the Latest Grails 2.x Web Framework on Linux Mint 17 Qiana LTS GNU/Linux desktop – Step by step Tutorial.
Grails is an Open Source, full stack, web application framework for the JVM that takes advantage of the Groovy programming language and convention over configuration to provide a productive and stream-lined development experience.
The Only Requirement for Grails 2 is an Oracle Java Development Kit 6+ Installation so Inside the Tutorial you’ll find How to Download and Install Oracle JDK for Mint Linux.

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Open a Command Line Terminal Window
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Download Latest Grails 2.x Binary Release.
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Double-Click on Archive and Extract into /tmp
Or from Command Line:
unzip -d /tmp/ $HOME/Downloads/grails*.zip
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Installing Grails 2 on Mint.
sudo su -c "chown -R root:root /tmp/grails*"
sudo su -c "mv /tmp/grails* /opt/grails2"
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Append Grails2 to the User Path.
nano $HOME/.bashrc
Append:
export GRAILS_HOME=/opt/grails2 export PATH=$GRAILS_HOME/bin:$PATH
Load the New Path:
bash
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How to Install Recommended Oracle JDK on Linux Mint
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Test Grails 2 Installation.
grails -version
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Getting Started with Grails 2 Web Development.