Appendix C.  Installing Apache Ant

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

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

  [localhost]$ sudo yum install ant

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Procedure C.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 into 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 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/Hewlett-Packard HP-UX systems 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

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   • On Microsoft Windows Server, do this by click on the Start Menu and opening the Control Panel then selecting System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables. Create a new variable named 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux/Hewlett-Packard HP-UX systems, add the following line to the ~/.bash_profile file after the one which sets the ANT_HOME variable:

     export PATH=$PATH:$ANT_HOME/bin

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   • On Microsoft Windows Server, 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.