Found the problem. The .tar.gz archieve is missing the lib files. I downloaded the .bz2, and all was fine.
Patrick On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:26 AM, Patrick Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to install Ant system-wide on my Ubuntu Hardy. > > I downloaded apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz, unzipped it, while root in > /usr/share, then renamed the directory (mv) to "ant". > > I then created a symbolic link to ant in /usr/bin (which is on the > path), and did this > > export ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant > export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0.07 > > and even > > export PATH=$PATH:/usr/share/ant/bin > > but when I run ant I get this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.6.0_07 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ant > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: > org/apache/tools/ant/launch/Launcher > Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: > org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:200) > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:188) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:276) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:251) > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:319) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > What am I missing? > > Patrick > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]