Though this is closed, what solved it for me in centos / fedora was: yum install ant-apache-regexp
hope that helps someone, for me it was just beneficial doing yum search ant | grep -i optional and since none of the repos i have (rpmfusion for instance) have a ant- optional package: you can pick and choose what you actually need for your project. for me, the current list I get (11/04/2012) [root@work cave]# yum search ant | grep Optional ant-antlr.i686 : Optional antlr tasks for ant ant-apache-bcel.i686 : Optional apache bcel tasks for ant ant-apache-bsf.i686 : Optional apache bsf tasks for ant ant-apache-log4j.i686 : Optional apache log4j tasks for ant ant-apache-oro.i686 : Optional apache oro tasks for ant ant-apache-regexp.i686 : Optional apache regexp tasks for ant ant-apache-resolver.i686 : Optional apache resolver tasks for ant ant-commons-logging.i686 : Optional commons logging tasks for ant ant-commons-net.i686 : Optional commons net tasks for ant ant-javamail.i686 : Optional javamail tasks for ant ant-jdepend.i686 : Optional jdepend tasks for ant ant-jmf.i686 : Optional jmf tasks for ant ant-jsch.i686 : Optional jsch tasks for ant ant-junit.i686 : Optional junit tasks for ant ant-nodeps.i686 : Optional tasks for ant ant-swing.i686 : Optional swing tasks for ant ant-trax.i686 : Optional trax tasks for ant -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/172789 Title: ant finds no supported regular expression matcher To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ant/+bug/172789/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs