Gradle store on local file system

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How does Gradle store downloaded jar files on the local file system  Maven stores them in the  m2 directory under USER HOME  but where does Gradle store them  I checked the  gradle folder there  but saw only compiled scripts

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In fact the cache location depends on the GRADLE_USER_HOME environment variable value. By default, it is $USER_HOME/.gradle on Unix-OS based and %userprofile%.\gradle on Windows.
But if you set this variable, the cache directory would be located from this path.

And whatever the case, you should dig into caches\modules-2\files-2.1 to find the dependencies.

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On Mac  Linux and Windows i e  on all 3 of the major platforms  Gradle stores dependencies at      gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1

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I am on windows   You should be able find the dependencies inside   USER HOME gradle caches artifacts-24 filestore

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If you want your dependency files to be in some specific folder you can simply use a copy task for it  For Eg   task copyDepJars type  Copy      from configurations compile   into  C   Users  athakur  Desktop  lib

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In case it is an Android gradle project - you can find the android libraries below your  ANDROID HOME extras android m2repository folder

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It took me a while to realize this  hence the additional answer  Hopefully it can save folks time  Note that if you are running sudo gradle the dependencies may not be in your home directory  even if sudo echo  HOME returns  Users  lt my-non-root-user gt    On my Mac  Gradle was caching the dependencies in  private var root  gradle caches

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Gradle s local repository folder is     USER HOME  gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1   Defined dependencies will be loaded from remote repositories into gradle s local repository folder  For each loaded file  gradle will be create a new folder named with md5 value of the original file  pom jar      Full path for the dependency file is made up from     groupid   artifactid   version   FILE MD5 VALUE   FILE NAME   If our defined dependency is    compile  org springframework spring-jdbc 4 3 4 RELEASE    Then the library will be loaded into       USER HOME  gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1 org springframework spring-jdbc 4 3 4 RELEASE 42175d194cf6aa7c716c0887f30255e5c0a5262c spring-jdbc-4 3 4 RELEASE jar

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In Windows 10 PC  it is saved at   C  Users  lt user gt   gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1

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I just stumbled onto this while searching for this answer  If you are using intellij  you can navigate to the file location  but opening the external lib folder in the project explorer  right clicking on the jar  and select Open Library Settings

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For my case  I was using an Ivy repository  and my Gradle dependencies were stored in    ivy2

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Gradle caches artifacts in USER HOME  gradle folder  The compiled scripts are usually in the  gradle folder in your project folder   If you can t find the cache  maybe it s because you have not cached any artifacts yet  You can always see where Gradle has cached artifacts with a simple script   apply plugin   java   repositories    mavenCentral      dependencies    compile  com google guava guava 12 0     task showMeCache  lt  lt      configurations compile each   println it       Now if you run gradle showMeCache it should download the deps into cache and print the full path

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In android studio do the following steps to check the gradle downloaded jar file    Set project structure view to  Project  At bottom External library section available  expand it  Here you can see downloaded jar files

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Many answers are correct  I want to add that you can easily find your download location with  gradle --info build   like described in https   stackoverflow com a 54000767 4471199   New downloaded artifacts will be shown in stdout   Downloading https   plugins gradle org m2 org springframework boot spring-boot-parent 2 1 7 RELEASE spring-boot-parent-2 1 7 RELEASE pom to  tmp gradle download551283009937119777bin   In this case  I used the docker image gradle 5 6 2-jdk12   As you can see  the docker container uses  tmp as download location

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On my windows machine with  Buildship 2 0 2  plugin installed in eclipse  dependencies are stored     USER HOME gradle caches modules-2 files-2 1

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You can use the gradle argument --project-cache-dir   Users whatever  gradle   to force the gradle cache directory    In this way you can be darn sure you know what directory is being used  as well as create different caches for different projects

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