Gradle appears to build fine trying to achieve the installAll target but in the final installation:

Executing task ':installAll' due to:
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/groovydoc/org/gradle/api/plugins/PluginInstantiationException.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/javadoc/org/gradle/tooling/model/idea/IdeaModuleDependency.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/groovydoc/org/gradle/process/JavaExecSpec.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/groovydoc/org/gradle/api/tasks/compile/GroovyForkOptions.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/javadoc/org/gradle/api/plugins/ReportingBasePluginConvention.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/groovydoc/org/gradle/plugins/cpp/CppLibConventionPlugin.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/groovydoc/org/gradle/api/plugins/sonar/model/SonarRootModel.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/groovydoc/org/gradle/api/NamedDomainObjectFactory.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
Output file /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/docs/javadoc/org/gradle/api/Plugin.html for task ':installAll' has changed.
1068 more ...

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':installAll'.
  Cause: /home/users/russel/lib/JavaPackages/gradle-trunk/bin does not exist.

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

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 41.963 secs

This has changed since 2011-09-20 when I did my last Gradle build.