Grails

Installation

First of all: install sun(oracle)-java 1.6 and remove all openjdk packages (or at least be shure to run update-alternatives --config java).

Ubuntu way

http://www.grails.org/Installation

http://www.grails.org/Download

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:groovy-dev/grails
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install grails

#to add grails 2.0.0 M1
sudo apt-get install grails-2.0.0 

#to add grails 1.2.5
sudo apt-get install grails-1.2.5

#switch between versions
sudo update-alternatives --config grails

That's it !

Manual

http://www.grails.org/Installation

http://www.grails.org/Download

Download an install grails into a directory.

Then edit your ~/.bashrc file or use export to set the variables in the running shell / environment:

export PATH="$PATH:/local/share/grails/bin"
export JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun"
export GRAILS_HOME="/local/share/grails"