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Published Jun. 30, 2025

Could not install Gradle distribution

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Apsara Raheja

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Issue

  • While importing workspace from one system to another through a remote desktop connection, the below error has been encountered:
    Could not install Gradle distribution from 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.6.1-bin.zip'. sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target unable to find

Environment

  • Liferay Developer Studio

Resolution

  • The https://services.gradle.org site which is trying to access to download Gradle is an HTTPS site, that is, secure HTTP. However, there might be no certificate from the Certification Authority on the Java virtual machine to authenticate that this website is indeed who it claims to be.
  • Since the JVM should already have the services.gradle.org certificate in its certificate repository because it was issued by the reputable certification authority, Cloudflare, Inc., the reason might be that the repository is outdated, which implies that the Java JDK is outdated as well, given that the operation failed.
  • Also, check the network connection because, at runtime, it is unable to load the Gradle distribution.
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