How to install ant 1.8.2 using PPA on ubuntu
Ant is a Java based build tool, similar to make, but with better support for the cross platform issues involved with developing Java applications. Ant is the build tool of choice for all Java projects at Apache and many other Open Source Java projects.
Key features of the 1.8.2 release are
performance improvements in directory scanning
XSLT task honors classpath again (bugrep 49271)
distinction between core tasks and optional tasks is abolished
numerous bug fixes and improvements
Install ant 1.8.2 using PPA on ubuntu
Open the terminal and run the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:eclipse-team/debian-package
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ant
Hey, I’m doing this on mint 9, and it installs Apache Ant version 1.7.1 instead of 1.8.2. What’s going wrong?
Hi,
doesn’t work. Installs version 1.7.1 on Ubuntu LTS.
Thanks.
Thankyou somuch. It helped me………..
Hi,
I had version 1.8.0 on my Lucid Lynx machine but after running the three commands it’s been downgraded to version 1.7.1, which has made my problem worse.
Anyone know where I can find version 1.8.2?
Thanks.
I try on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, but the correct command was
sudo apt-get install ant1.8
not
sudo apt-get install ant
Try sudo apt-get install ant1.8