Install Ant tool on Ubuntu Linux

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In this post, we will learn to download and install the Apache Ant tool on an Ubuntu Linux machine. Steps to set Ant home variable.

Environment:

Steps

First things first, check if ant is installed on the machine.

Launch terminal and issue the following command.

$ ant

ant not found

We can install ant from the above command. However, we will do a manual download from native packages and install of the tool to a standard location.

Navigate to Ant official website.

Ant Download Linux

Click on the Binary Distributions link under the Download section.

Choose the tar file and download the file on to the machine.

Ant Download Save File Linux

Locate the tar file on the computer and extract the contents.

$ sudo tar -xvf <ant tar file>

ant contents tar command

Move the ant installation folder to some standard location. In this tutorial, we will use /opt/ant directory path.

Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to point to the ant install folder. For example, in this case

Edit the /etc/profile file and set the variable. Add the bin directory to the PATH.

ANT_HOME=/opt/ant

export ANT_HOME

That’s it. We are done with the Ant install process.

Launch Terminal and issue the following Ant version command.

$ ant -v

ant version command