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Posted to user@ant.apache.org by Frank Gunseor <fd...@gmail.com> on 2008/07/04 17:39:57 UTC
newbie question regarding setting environment variables
I have ant install on Ubuntu 8.04.
When I try to run ant I get an error message, "Unable to locate tools.jar,
etc.".
I expect that I have to set JAVA_HOME, but for the life of me I can not
figure out where or how.
I have checked the manual, the FAQ, etc. I guess I'm just being dense today.
Can someone help?
Thank you.
FDG
RE: newbie question regarding setting environment variables
Posted by "Frank D. Gunseor" <fd...@verizon.net>.
supareno,
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
That was exactly what I needed.
I have got to get back to thinking in Linux! Windows ruined me!
Again, after following your directions, it worked perfectly.
FDG
-----Original Message-----
From: supareno [mailto:reno.rkcrew@free.fr]
Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:29 PM
To: Ant Users List
Subject: Re: newbie question regarding setting environment variables
Frank,
can you give us the result of 'ant -diagnostics' or 'ant -diagnostics |
grep tools' to see tools.jar is in your path if not, what is the result of
'echo $JAVA_HOME'?
to set your JAVA_HOME:
edit your bashrc file
vi ~/.bashrc
add these lines at the end your bashrc file ...
PATH=/<path_to_your_jdk>/bin:$PATH
JAVA_HOME=/<path_to_your_jdk>/
JDK_HOME=/<path_to_your_jdk>/
export PATH
export JAVA_HOME
export JDK_HOME
save your changes
[ <esc> + : + w + q ] in the vi editor
reload your bashrc file (not sure that is useful)
source ~/.bashrc
try echo $JAVA_HOME
you must see /<path_to_your_jdk>/
and after try ant -diagnostics
hope this help
supareno
> I have ant install on Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> When I try to run ant I get an error message, "Unable to locate
> tools.jar, etc.".
>
> I expect that I have to set JAVA_HOME, but for the life of me I can
> not figure out where or how.
>
> I have checked the manual, the FAQ, etc. I guess I'm just being dense
today.
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Thank you.
>
> FDG
>
>
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Re: newbie question regarding setting environment variables
Posted by supareno <re...@free.fr>.
Frank,
can you give us the result of 'ant -diagnostics' or 'ant -diagnostics |
grep tools' to see tools.jar is in your path
if not, what is the result of 'echo $JAVA_HOME'?
to set your JAVA_HOME:
edit your bashrc file
vi ~/.bashrc
add these lines at the end your bashrc file
...
PATH=/<path_to_your_jdk>/bin:$PATH
JAVA_HOME=/<path_to_your_jdk>/
JDK_HOME=/<path_to_your_jdk>/
export PATH
export JAVA_HOME
export JDK_HOME
save your changes
[ <esc> + : + w + q ] in the vi editor
reload your bashrc file (not sure that is useful)
source ~/.bashrc
try echo $JAVA_HOME
you must see /<path_to_your_jdk>/
and after try ant -diagnostics
hope this help
supareno
> I have ant install on Ubuntu 8.04.
>
> When I try to run ant I get an error message, "Unable to locate tools.jar,
> etc.".
>
> I expect that I have to set JAVA_HOME, but for the life of me I can not
> figure out where or how.
>
> I have checked the manual, the FAQ, etc. I guess I'm just being dense today.
>
> Can someone help?
>
> Thank you.
>
> FDG
>
>
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Re: newbie question regarding setting environment variables
Posted by Henning Bredel <h....@gmx.de>.
> I expect that I have to set JAVA_HOME, but for the life of me I can not
> figure out where or how.
For a session you can type
JAVA_HOME=<path to your java JDK>
Note that you have to set the path to your JDK, not the JRE.
Setting the path permanent, you can alter your ~/.profile
(in your /home/<username> dir). Type here at the bottom
export JAVA_HOME=<path to your java JDK>
and add optionally to your path
export PATH=JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
Regards
Henning