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Apache Ant

Ant is very a popular 'make' tool.  That is commonly used on Java projects.  e.g. to compile java files, create jar files and deploy webapps to application servers.

Cut and Paste Ant Install Script

function installant() {
# get the latest version number
antarchive=$(wget -O - -q http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/ | grep 'tar.bz2<' | sed 's/^.*<a .*>\(.*\)<\/a>.*$/\1/')
if [ -z "$antarchive" ]; then
    antarchive="apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.bz2"
fi

pushd /usr/local
wget -O - "http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/$antarchive" |
tar xj
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Failed getting ant binary from 'http://www.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/$antarchive'" >&2
    return 1
fi
if [ -e /usr/local/apache-ant ]; then
    mv /usr/local/apache-ant /usr/local/old.apache-ant
fi
mv /usr/local/`basename $antarchive -bin.tar.bz2` /usr/local/apache-ant
popd

mkdir -p /etc/profile.d/
echo 'export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/apache-ant/bin' > /etc/profile.d/ant.sh
chmod +x /etc/profile.d/ant.sh

/usr/local/apache-ant/bin/ant -version
}

installant

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