supareno, Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
That was exactly what I needed. I have got to get back to thinking in Linux! Windows ruined me! Again, after following your directions, it worked perfectly. FDG -----Original Message----- From: supareno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:29 PM To: Ant Users List Subject: Re: newbie question regarding setting environment variables Frank, can you give us the result of 'ant -diagnostics' or 'ant -diagnostics | grep tools' to see tools.jar is in your path if not, what is the result of 'echo $JAVA_HOME'? to set your JAVA_HOME: edit your bashrc file vi ~/.bashrc add these lines at the end your bashrc file ... PATH=/<path_to_your_jdk>/bin:$PATH JAVA_HOME=/<path_to_your_jdk>/ JDK_HOME=/<path_to_your_jdk>/ export PATH export JAVA_HOME export JDK_HOME save your changes [ <esc> + : + w + q ] in the vi editor reload your bashrc file (not sure that is useful) source ~/.bashrc try echo $JAVA_HOME you must see /<path_to_your_jdk>/ and after try ant -diagnostics hope this help supareno > I have ant install on Ubuntu 8.04. > > When I try to run ant I get an error message, "Unable to locate > tools.jar, etc.". > > I expect that I have to set JAVA_HOME, but for the life of me I can > not figure out where or how. > > I have checked the manual, the FAQ, etc. I guess I'm just being dense today. > > Can someone help? > > Thank you. > > FDG > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.134 / Virus Database: 270.4.5/1533 - Release Date: 7/3/2008 7:19 PM --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
