How to Install and Config Ant for Centos 4.4 ?
 

I need to install Ant for my Centos 4.4. There is an instruction to do it by using jpackage and I have tried but it did not work,i.e. it shows error when I use ANT.

When I run # ant-disgnostics, the log is below. Could somebody let me know how to configure this Ant to work with Centos 4.4? Thanks!

> ant -diagnostics

/usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Could not find xml-commons-apis Java extension for this JVM
/usr/bin/build-classpath: error: Some specified jars were not found
------- Ant diagnostics report -------
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on February 9 2007

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Implementation Version (JDK1.2+ only)
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core tasks : 1.6.5
optional tasks : not available

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ANT_HOME/lib jar listing
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ant.home: /usr/share/ant
ant-jsch.jar (22726 bytes)
ant-jai.jar (21359 bytes)
ant.jar (1034049 bytes)
ant-javamail.jar (6761 bytes)
xercesImpl.jar (1010675 bytes)
ant-weblogic.jar (14363 bytes)
ant-stylebook.jar (2328 bytes)
xml-apis.jar (124724 bytes)
ant-xslp.jar (2244 bytes)
ant-swing.jar (6763 bytes)
ant-launcher.jar (9180 bytes)
ant-starteam.jar (35472 bytes)
ant-apache-log4j.jar (3022 bytes)
ant-nodeps.jar (421008 bytes)
ant-vaj.jar (49742 bytes)
ant-apache-resolver.jar (4082 bytes)
ant-apache-bcel.jar (8617 bytes)
ant-jdepend.jar (8160 bytes)
ant-icontract.jar (9721 bytes)
ant-commons-net.jar (35303 bytes)
ant-commons-logging.jar (3864 bytes)
ant-jmf.jar (6605 bytes)
ant-apache-regexp.jar (3724 bytes)
ant-apache-oro.jar (48034 bytes)
ant-netrexx.jar (9998 bytes)
ant-junit.jar (74237 bytes)
ant-apache-bsf.jar (12597 bytes)
ant-xalan1.jar (4465 bytes)
ant-trax.jar (68841 bytes)
ant-antlr.jar (5667 bytes)

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propertyfile : Not Available
importtypelib : Not Available
vsscheckin : Not Available
p4reopen : Not Available
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p4label : Not Available
p4revert : Not Available
replaceregexp : Not Available
jjtree : Not Available
jarlib-display : Not Available
jspc : Not Available
test : Not Available
vsshistory : Not Available
icontract : Not Available
p4submit : Not Available
scp : Not Available
ccmcheckin : Not Available
p4change : Not Available
p4delete : Not Available
vssadd : Not Available
p4integrate : Not Available
translate : Not Available
cclock : Not Available
chown : Not Available
vajload : Not Available
jarlib-available : Not Available
rexec : Not Available
WsdlToDotnet : Not Available
jpcovmerge : Not Available
ejbjar : Not Available
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serverdeploy : Not Available
ildasm : Not Available
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org.apache.env.Which diagnostics
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Not available.
Download it at http://xml.apache.org/commons/

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XML Parser information
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XML Parser : org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl
XML Parser Location: /usr/share/java/xerces-j2-2.7.1.jar

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System properties
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java.runtime.name : Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition
sun.boot.library.path : /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_09/jre/lib/i386
java.vm.version : 1.5.0_09-b03
ant.library.dir : /usr/share/ant/lib
java.vm.vendor : Sun Microsystems Inc.
java.vendor.url : http://java.sun.com/
path.separator : :
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user.country : US
sun.os.patch.level : unknown
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user.dir : /root
java.runtime.version : 1.5.0_09-b03
java.awt.graphicsenv : sun.awt.X11GraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs : /usr/java/jdk1.5.0_09/jre/lib/endorsed
os.arch : i386
java.io.tmpdir : /tmp
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os.name : Linux
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I solved this problem. The cause: xml-commons-apis.jar should be in /usr/share/java/ but it wasn't installed despite a successful jdk install.

I re-installed as follows.

[root@server ~]# yum install xml-commons
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package xml-commons.noarch 0:1.3.03-7jpp set to be updated
--> Running transaction check

Dependencies Resolved

=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
xml-commons noarch 1.3.03-7jpp jpackage 17 - generic 9.0 k

Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 9.0 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
(1/1): xml-commons-1.3.03 100% |=========================| 9.0 kB 00:00
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
Updating : xml-commons ######################### [1/2]
Cleanup : xml-commons ######################### [2/2]

Updated: xml-commons.noarch 0:1.3.03-7jpp
Complete!
[root@server ~]# rpm -ivh http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1...jpp.noarch.rpm
Retrieving http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/1...jpp.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:xml-commons-jaxp-1.3-ap########################################### [100%]
[root@server ~]# ant -version
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on February 9 2007

No more error
;)