Hi All,
Installing ANT on Ubuntu is fairly very simple. All We have to do is to open the terminal window. And simply run the below command.
sudo apt-get -u install ant
Once you run the command You will be prompted for the admin password and the installation begin.. Once Done simply type ANT in the terminal..
Hope this Helps.
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R Vashi
Software Development Demystified 
I get an error message saying “Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib/tools.jar”
Ayola,
do you have jdk installed in your ubuntu OS.
Verify in the below steps:
1. open terminal
2. type “java -version” and press enter. if you are able to see the JDK version information then use the below 3rd step otherwise go to step 4.
3. Set JAVA_HOME into environment variable, Copy following statement and append to /etc/profile or .bashrc file, make system set JAVA_HOME into system environment variable.
export JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.06;”
4 You need to setup JDK. Open the terminal, and type the below command.
apt-get install sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-jre
Once installation done, you can perform the step 3 to set the java_home.
Hope this helps
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R Vashi
Thank you for the explaination
in my terminal apt-get -u install ant give some warning (libjaxp1.3-java libxerces2-java ant libgcj-common gcj-4.4-base libgcj10 libgcj-bc ant-gcj ant-optional ant-optional-gcj
gcj-4.4-jre-lib) after that give this type of error (Err http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main libjaxp1.3-java 1.3.04-5ubuntu3
407 Proxy Authentication Required ( The ISA Server requires authorization to fulfill the request. Access to the Web Proxy service is denied. )
i am try but it will give 407 error….
Hi Vivek,
Apologies was just away for few days and couldn’t saw your comment.. Please let me know if your prob is still there..
Excellent worked very well in Ubunu11.10
I have install Ant 1.8.2 successfully using sudo apt-get -u install ant command.
but it gives error when I try to open it by typing ANT in terminal
error: Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed
whats going wrong here..
plz help.
thanks.
The moment you run the “ANT” command it looks for BUILD.XML(ant script) at same location, Please make sure you have the same before running that.
Hope this helps.
when i try to install ant with the command(sudo apt-get-u install ant)
, its saying command not found
probably you need to reinstall apt, try download it from: http://packages.ubuntu.com/
I used ubun server 12.04 and I want to install ant but i can’t
I used sudo apt-get -u install ant command and ERROR package ‘ant’ has no installation candidate
can You help me?