Could not install Gradle distribution from ‘https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.1-all.zip’

It could be that the gradle-2.1 distribution specified by the wrapper was not downloaded properly. This was the root cause of the same problem in my environment.

Look into this directory:

ls -l ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists/

In there you should find a gradle-2.1 folder.
Delete it like so:

rm -rf ~/.gradle/wrapper/dists/gradle-2.1-bin/

Restart IntelliJ, after that it will restart the download from the beginning and hopefully work.

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