How to install apache ant 1.10.3 on Ubuntu 18.04

To install Apache Ant 1.10.3 on Ubuntu   18.04

Apache Ant  is a Java-based build tool that was developed by Apache Software Foundation, which is used to build files that are written in XML. Apache Ant is a Java library and command line tool so it is required to install Java Development Kit (JDK). This tutorial explains the installation procedure of Apache Ant on Ubuntu. 

Installation

Let’ s First start with updating the system repository. 

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update 
Hit:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease
Hit:2 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease 
Hit:3 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After updating the system repository proceed to download apache-ant  latest version

root@linuxhelp:~# wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.10.3-bin.zip
--2018-04-30 18:42:39--  http://www-eu.apache.org/dist//ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.10.3-bin.zip
Resolving www-eu.apache.org (www-eu.apache.org)... 195.154.151.36, 2001:bc8:2142:300::
Connecting to www-eu.apache.org (www-eu.apache.org)|195.154.151.36|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9011568 (8.6M) [application/zip]
Saving to: ‘ apache-ant-1.10.3-bin.zip’ 

apache-ant-1.10.3-bin.zip      100%[===================================================> ]   8.59M  38.7MB/s    in 0.2s    

2018-04-30 18:43:02 (38.7 MB/s) - ‘ apache-ant-1.10.3-bin.zip’  saved [9011568/9011568]

After Downloading unzip the package to /usr/local directory.

root@linuxhelp:~# unzip apache-ant-1.10.3-bin.zip -d /usr/local/
Archive:  apache-ant-1.10.3-bin.zip
   creating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/
   creating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/bin/
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/bin/ant  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/bin/antRun  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/bin/antRun.pl  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/bin/complete-ant-cmd.p
.
.
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/manual/tutorial-writing-tasks-src.zip  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/manual/tutorial-writing-tasks.html  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/manual/tutorials.html  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/manual/using.html  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/manual/usinglist.html  
  inflating: /usr/local/apache-ant-1.10.3/patch.xml  

Now navigate to the extracted directory and rename the file. 

root@linuxhelp:~# cd /usr/local/ 
apache-ant-1.10.3  bin  etc  games  include  lib  man  sbin  share  src
root@linuxhelp:/usr/local# mv apache-ant-1.10.3 apache-ant
root@linuxhelp:/usr/local# ls
apache-ant  bin  etc  games  include  lib  man  sbin  share  src

Next, create a soft link using the following command.

root@linuxhelp:/usr/local# ln -s /usr/local/apache-ant/ /usr/local/ant

Now create Environment Variables for Apache Ant. Create a file called ant.sh inside /etc/profile.d/ directory.

root@linuxhelp:/usr/local# vi /etc/profile.d/ant.sh
export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
export PATH=${ANT_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

After creating environment variables, you need to run the following command to execute the variables.

root@linuxhelp:/usr/local# source /etc/profile

The Apache Ant has been successfully installed. Next, you can check the version of Apache Ant. 

root@linuxhelp:/usr/local# ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.10.3 compiled on March 24 2018 

With this, the method to  install Apache Ant   1.10.3 on Ubuntu 18.04 comes to an end.