Hi, thanks for your reply. I was able to install a different version of ant from yum. This issue is resolved.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:11 PM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote: > J2SE 7 = 51, > J2SE 6.0 = 50, > J2SE 5.0 = 49, > JDK 1.4 = 48, > JDK 1.3 = 47, > JDK 1.2 = 46, > JDK 1.1 = 45 > echo $JAVA_HOMEyou'll need to (re)compile all of your java classes with > the same JDK (from $JAVA_HOME)that your JRE runs with $JAVA_HOME\jreIn > other words > javac -version java -version > should be the same version > after I untar ANT i set $ANT_HOME to the location of untared folder > place $ANT_HOME\bin on $PATH > > Martin Gainty > ______________________________________________ > Verzicht und Vertraulichkeitanmerkung/Note de déni et de confidentialité > > Diese Nachricht ist vertraulich. Sollten Sie nicht der vorgesehene > Empfaenger sein, so bitten wir hoeflich um eine Mitteilung. Jede unbefugte > Weiterleitung oder Fertigung einer Kopie ist unzulaessig. Diese Nachricht > dient lediglich dem Austausch von Informationen und entfaltet keine > rechtliche Bindungswirkung. Aufgrund der leichten Manipulierbarkeit von > E-Mails koennen wir keine Haftung fuer den Inhalt uebernehmen. > Ce message est confidentiel et peut être privilégié. Si vous n'êtes pas le > destinataire prévu, nous te demandons avec bonté que pour satisfaire > informez l'expéditeur. N'importe quelle diffusion non autorisée ou la copie > de ceci est interdite. Ce message sert à l'information seulement et n'aura > pas n'importe quel effet légalement obligatoire. Étant donné que les email > peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter > aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > > > Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2013 13:37:58 -0400 > > Subject: Can't get ant to install... > > From: yoursurrogate...@gmail.com > > To: user@ant.apache.org > > > > Hi all, I'm trying to install ant. > > > > After using sudo, I ran this command and this is the result that I got: > > > > $ sudo ./build.sh -Dant.install=/usr/bin > > [sudo] password for developer: > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: > > org/apache/tools/ant/launch/Launcher : Unsupported major.minor version > 51.0 > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method) > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:634) > > at > > java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142) > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:277) > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:73) > > at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:212) > > at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) > > at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205) > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321) > > at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294) > > at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266) > > Could not find the main class: org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher. > > Program will exit. > > > > Ok... not what I wanted. Then, just for kicks, this is what I decided to > > do: > > > > $ ./build.sh -Dant.install=/usr install > > Buildfile: > > /home/developer/Downloads/apache-projects/apache-ant-1.9.0/build.xml > > > > install: > > > > prepare: > > > > check_for_optional_packages: > > > > build: > > Copying 2 files to > > /home/developer/Downloads/apache-projects/apache-ant-1.9.0/build/classes > > > > jars: > > Building jar: > > > /home/developer/Downloads/apache-projects/apache-ant-1.9.0/build/lib/ant.jar > > > > dist-lite: > > Copying 21 files to /usr/lib > > > > BUILD FAILED > > > /home/developer/Downloads/apache-projects/apache-ant-1.9.0/build.xml:1403: > > The following error occurred while executing this line: > > /home/developer/Downloads/apache-projects/apache-ant-1.9.0/build.xml:877: > > Failed to copy > > > /home/developer/Downloads/apache-projects/apache-ant-1.9.0/build/lib/ant-antlr.jar > > to /usr/lib/ant-antlr.jar due to java.io.FileNotFoundException > > /usr/lib/ant-antlr.jar (Permission denied) > > > > Total time: 7 seconds > > > > > > And that's not surprising. I do want ant to be installed in /usr/bin, > but > > get that funky Java error when I try. > > > > Why is that? > > > > How can I instally ant-1.9 on my CentOS 6.3 machine? No, it was not > > pre-installed :) . > >