⁠Appendix E.  Installing Apache Ant

Procedure E.1.  Installing Apache Ant on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Download and install Apache Ant on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Repository by issuing this command:

  [localhost]$ sudo yum install ant

Procedure E.2.  Installing Apache Ant on Other Operating Systems

1. Download and Extract

   Download the Apache Ant binary release from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
   Once it is downloaded, extract it in a preferred installation location, such as c:\Program Files\Apache\Ant\ or /opt/apache-ant-1.8/.

2. Add the ANT_HOME Environmental Variable

   Next, create create an environmental variable called ANT_HOME. This variable has to contain the path created in the previous step.
   • Do this on Red Hat Enterprise Linux by adding the following line to the ~/.bash_profile file, substituting the path with that created above.

     export ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant-1.7.1
     export ANT_HOME=/opt/apache-ant-1.7.1

   • On Microsoft Windows, do this by click on the Start Menu and opening the Control Panel then selecting System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables. Create a new variable, calling it ANT_HOME and configure it to point to the ant directory.

3. Include bin in the PATH

   Next, append the ant installation's bin directory the PATH environmental variable.
   • On Unix/Linux systems, one does this simply by adding the following line to the ~/.bash_profile file after the one which sets the ANT_HOME variable:

     ​export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin
     ​export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin

   • On Microsoft Windows, do this task by opening the Control Panel then selecting System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables->System Variables -> Path. Create a new variable, calling it ANT_HOME. Next, add a semicolon and %ANT_HOME%\bin to the end of the path value.