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 … Read more