gradle error on ':core'

[sunhanjie]

I install Hipi from the instruction. When I run gradle , I got the error as follows. By the way, my ubuntu version is 14.04, Java version is 1.8.0_66, Hadoop version is 2.6.0, gradle version is 1.8.6

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where: Build file '/home/s/hipi/core/build.gradle' line: 8

• What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':core'.

  Could not find method distributions() for arguments [build_8nfcqrm8d036uencqjsvkfucd$_run_closure2@7f74297a] on project ':core'.

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 21.731 secs

How can I solve this problem? Thanks.

[sunhanjie]

Solved. I didn't update my gradle version. After updating, it can work.

[nihalc14]

Same problem but still not solved after updating gradle. Please suggest a solution