I'll try to be as descriptive as possible but am under NDA.

I have never used Spine or Libgdx before. I was given a project at my job trying to cut down the size of a game. I was given the entire code base and in it there is a Spine project. I have added in the Libgdx version that Spine used into the project and added in the proper build calls in the Gradle.build file. However, the Spine project continues to d/l the Libgdx jars from a Maven Repository. Does anyone know how to get the Spine project to reference the libgdx project instead of d/l the jars?

Additional info:
I am using Intellij as the IDE

Yes. Here is the projects build.gradle and spine's build.gradle.

Projects:
buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        mavenLocal() //added to try to use local code

    //commented out to try to get Spine to use local code
   // maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" }
}
dependencies {
}
}

plugins {
    id "org.sonarqube" version "2.6"
}

allprojects {
    apply plugin: "eclipse"
    apply plugin: "idea"

version = '1.0'
ext {
    appName = "XXXXX"
    gdxVersion = '1.9.5'
    roboVMVersion = '1.6.0'
    box2DLightsVersion = '1.4'
    ashleyVersion = '1.6.0'
    aiVersion = '1.5.0'
}

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    //added to try to use local code, commented out maven urls as well
    mavenLocal()
    //maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/" }
    //maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/" }
      maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
}
}


project(":desktop") {
    apply plugin: "java"


dependencies {
    compile project(":core")

    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-backend-lwjgl:$gdxVersion"
    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-platform:$gdxVersion:natives-desktop"
    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-controllers-desktop:$gdxVersion"
    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-controllers-platform:$gdxVersion:natives-desktop"
    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-freetype-platform:$gdxVersion:natives-desktop"
    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-tools:$gdxVersion"

}
}


project(":core") {
    apply plugin: "java"


dependencies {
    compile project(":spine:spine-libgdx")

    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx:$gdxVersion"
    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-controllers:$gdxVersion"
    compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx-freetype:$gdxVersion"

    compile "org.lwjgl.lwjgl:lwjgl:2.9.2" // To address controller on OSX bug. (Keep in sync with the version libgdx uses!)
    compile "com.code-disaster.steamworks4j:steamworks4j:1.6.2"
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.4'
    compile 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.10'
    compile 'commons-net:commons-net:3.5'
    compile 'io.sentry:sentry-log4j2:1.7.3'
    compile 'org.apache.logging.log4j:log4j-core:2.9.1'
    compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-simple:1.7.25'
    compile "com.github.Gikkman:Java-Twirk:0.3"
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

test {

    // set a system property for the test JVM(s)
    systemProperty 'some.prop', 'value'

    // show standard out and standard error of the test JVM(s) on the console
    testLogging.showStandardStreams = true

    // set heap size for the test JVM(s)
    minHeapSize = "128m"
    maxHeapSize = "512m"

    // set JVM arguments for the test JVM(s)
    // jvmArgs '-XX:MaxPermSize=256m'

    // listen to events in the test execution lifecycle
    beforeTest { descriptor ->
        logger.lifecycle("Running test: " + descriptor)
    }

    // listen to standard out and standard error of the test JVM(s)
    onOutput { descriptor, event ->
        logger.lifecycle("Test: " + descriptor + " produced standard out/err: " + event.message )
    }
}
}

project(":spine:spine-libgdx") {
    apply plugin: "java"


dependencies {
    compile project (":libgdx")
  
    // This starts the download of the libgdx jars.
     compile "com.badlogicgames.gdx:gdx:$gdxVersion"
}
}

//added in call to the libgdx project
project (":libgdx") {
    apply plugin: "java"



}

tasks.eclipse.doLast {
    delete ".project"
}


Spines:

apply plugin: "java"

sourceCompatibility = 1.7
[compileJava, compileTestJava][i].options[/i].encoding = 'UTF-8'

sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs = [ "src/" ]


eclipse.project {
    name = "spine-libgdx"
}