Installing Armitage (Debugging Gradle)

┌──(leigh㉿Kali)-[~/armitage]
└─$ bash package.sh + ./gradlew assemble
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on -Dswing.aatext=true
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

  • Where:
    Settings file ‘/home/leigh/armitage/settings.gradle’
  • What went wrong:
    Could not compile settings file ‘/home/leigh/armitage/settings.gradle’.

startup failed:
General error during semantic analysis: Unsupported class file major version 61
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unsupported class file major version 61
at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:196)
at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:177)
at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:163)
at groovyjarjarasm.asm.ClassReader.(ClassReader.java:284)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.AsmDecompiler.parseClass(AsmDecompiler.java:81)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.findDecompiled(ClassNodeResolver.java:251)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.tryAsLoaderClassOrScript(ClassNodeResolver.java:189)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.findClassNode(ClassNodeResolver.java:169)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.ClassNodeResolver.resolveName(ClassNodeResolver.java:125)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.AsmReferenceResolver.resolveClassNullable(AsmReferenceResolver.java:57)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.AsmReferenceResolver.resolveClass(AsmReferenceResolver.java:44)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.AsmReferenceResolver.resolveNonArrayType(AsmReferenceResolver.java:79)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.AsmReferenceResolver.resolveType(AsmReferenceResolver.java:70)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.MemberSignatureParser.createMethodNode(MemberSignatureParser.java:57)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.DecompiledClassNode$2.get(DecompiledClassNode.java:234)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.DecompiledClassNode$2.get(DecompiledClassNode.java:231)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.DecompiledClassNode.createMethodNode(DecompiledClassNode.java:242)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.DecompiledClassNode.lazyInitMembers(DecompiledClassNode.java:199)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.decompiled.DecompiledClassNode.getDeclaredMethods(DecompiledClassNode.java:122)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.getMethods(ClassNode.java:912)
at org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode.tryFindPossibleMethod(ClassNode.java:1280)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.StaticImportVisitor.transformMethodCallExpression(StaticImportVisitor.java:252)
at org.codehaus.groovy.control.StaticImportVisitor.transform(StaticImportVisitor.java:113)

Could anyone recommend some troubleshooting steps related to this things to try? Using gradle.

You are most likely using Java 17 to run a Gradle version that is not compatible to run on Java 17.
This was added in Gradle 7.3: Compatibility Matrix