SE450: Ant: Download [17/41]

Download it from here. You should get the .zip version if you are on Windows, get the tar.gz if you are on Unix. For now, just get jakarta-ant-1.5.1-bin[.zip or .tar.gz].

On Windows, unzip it to a directory using your favorite zip tool. With WinZip, you just double click on the file, click the extract button, and choose a good directory to unzip it to. I recommend something close to the root of your drive, like D:\ or C:\ or C:\se450. Once extracted, it will be in a directory called jakarta-ant-1.5.1. We will call this directory ANT_HOME

On Unix, extract the ant tarball to a directory where you have permissions to keep applications. On linux, this might be /usr/local, on HP it might be /apps or /opt. If you don't have root access, you can install Ant anywhere.

With Gnu tar, you can use the command tar -xvzf jakarta-ant-1.5.1-bin.tar.gz. With the standard tar, use something like gzip -c jakarta-ant-1.5.1-bin.tar.gz | tar xf - from the directory where you want the ANT_HOME to be.

With either download, you can check the PGP signature of the file using pgp or gpg.