To install Ant, follow the instructions at http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing Bruce had more information on this above. I did notice that there is an extra step:
5. Optionally, run ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=system to get the library > dependencies of most of the Ant optional tasks. If you don't do this, many > of the optional Ant tasks will not be available. See Optional > Tasks<#optionalTasks> for > details and other options for the -Ddest parameter. What is "system"? Is it replaced with the ant home? Or is it a literal? Is this step new with 1.8? Where is the fetch.xml script? Does current directory need to be set? <http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#installing> --glenn On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 06:11, wolfgang haefelinger <whaefelin...@gmail.com>wrote: > Bruce, > > >> How in heaven can I install ANT? > > How in heaven is it possible to make a Phd which such a little > "willingness-to-dig-into-something-new"? > > >> Hopefully, someone is able and willing to sit for a good while and write > a detailed procedure to get this done. > > You are the perfect candidate to do so. Please go ahead. > > Wolfgang. > > > On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Bruce Atherton <br...@callenish.com > >wrote: > > > There are instructions on the Install page for how you set those > > environmental variables[1][2][3], at least within a command shell. > > > > If you want to set them up to be available across all command shells, > then > > that will depend on your operating system. You don't tell us which > operating > > system you are using, so it is difficult to know how to direct you.You > can > > look at Windows XP instructions[4] which largely apply to Vista and > Windows > > 7 as well[5], or if you are on a Macintosh you can look at instructions > for > > OS X using tcsh[6] or bash[7]. > > > > [1] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#windows > > [2] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#bash > > [3] http://ant.apache.org/manual/install.html#tcshcsh > > [4] http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment.htm > > [5] > > > http://vlaurie.com/computers2/Articles/environment-variables-windows-vista-7.htm > > [6] http://www.digitaledgesw.com/node/31 > > [7] > > > http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/os-x-applications-games/87365-how-set-environment-variables.html > > > > On 28/05/2010 7:41 PM, miranda raul wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> First of all, I have to say that I am a not versed in computers. I need > to > >> install and run a program called NESTEDMICA that requires ANT. The > problem > >> is... How in heaven can I install ANT? Just to get you an idea where my > >> difficulties started, I couldn't set the environmental variables > JAVA_HOME > >> and ANT_HOME as required in the "Installing ANT" section of the manual. > >> Hopefully, someone is able and willing to sit for a good while and write > a > >> detailed procedure to get this done. > >> Thank you very much for your help. > >> Raul > >> > >> > >> __________________________________ > >> Raul Miranda, PhD > >> Postdoctoral Research > >> Ardmore House > >> School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science. > >> University College Dublin > >> Belfield, Dublin 4 > >> Ireland > >> Tel: +35317161625 > >> Email: miranda.r...@ucd.ie > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: user-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: user-h...@ant.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > Wolfgang Häfelinger > häfelinger IT - Applied Software Architecture > http://www.haefelinger.it > +31 648 27 61 59 >
