SE452: Ant: Download [2/8]

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 apache-ant-1.5.4-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:\se452. Once extracted, it will be in a directory called apache-ant-1.5.4. 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 apache-ant-1.5.4-bin.tar.gz. With the standard tar, use something like gzip -c apache-ant-1.5.4-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.