How do I install ant on OS X Mavericks?

After upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, ant is no longer on my path.

[126] 11:23:26 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > ant
zsh: permission denied: ant
[126] 11:23:50 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > which ant
ant not found

I tried installing through homebrew

[126] 11:23:09 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > brew install ant
Error: No available formula for ant

It's odd that homebrew doesn't have a formula for that....

After googling, I found this article, which suggested using a user's custom formula for brew.

[1] 11:23:56 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > brew install https://raw.github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/master/duplicates/ant.rb

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew\ 0.9.4\ (Ruby\ 1.8.7-358;\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.9) https://raw.github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/master/duplicates/ant.rb -o /Library/Caches/Homebrew/Formula/ant.rb

Any help would be appreciated!

Robert Karl

Posted 2013-06-20T18:28:51.283

Reputation: 968

Answers

131

It looks like the alternate repository was migrated. You can either enable the homebrew alternate repository or install directly after updating your brew:

brew update
brew install ant

Ethan Mateja

Posted 2013-06-20T18:28:51.283

Reputation: 1 426

It seems that homebrew does NOT create the needed (by some tools like cocos2dx-android) ant_path. – Jonny – 2015-04-22T07:18:14.333

Install specific version (1.9):
brew install ant@1.9 – Al Belsky – 2017-06-02T14:58:52.097

Worked like a charm. – Robert Karl – 2013-06-24T22:12:12.943

7brew install homebrew/dupes/ant also works. – Jess – 2013-10-22T23:41:53.083

23as of today, you just need brew install ant – awenkhh – 2013-10-23T12:55:38.207

4Just as an aside: if you already have Homebrew installed (as I did, from a while back), make sure you perform a brew update before you try the accepted answer or else you may get a 404 error. It is good policy to update your formulas before install but I might have let that slip my mind... – Matt Ray – 2013-10-23T14:30:04.520

I had 404 even after update. I've tried: brew tap homebrew/dupes and then brew install ant and worked. (Source: http://blog.xk72.com/post/53124504531/homebrew-dupes-installing-ant-on-mac-os-x )

– helios – 2013-10-29T13:45:00.267

1@awenkhh But this gives ==> Downloading http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.2-bin.tar.gz. Error: Couldn't determine mirror. Try again later. While the URL mentioned in that error message loads find in the browser. – avernet – 2013-11-03T23:22:17.263

To get around the issue mentioned in my previous message, I edited /usr/local/Library/Formula/ant.rb and replaced the URL there with http://www.us.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.2-bin.tar.gz. (Maybe http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi used to return a redirect, and it doesn't do this anymore?) – avernet – 2013-11-03T23:33:03.083

@Alessandro Vernet in doing so, you will have a conflict when running brew update. You should at least do a git -a commit 'your message' to have clean repo in /usr/local/Library/Formula – awenkhh – 2013-11-04T12:12:41.617

@awenkhh Good point. I just ran git co ant.rb afterwards, to clean up my changes, since I most likely won't need to run this in the future anymore. – avernet – 2013-11-04T17:10:21.273

Upgraded to Mavericks this morning and found "command not found: ant"

brew update

Ran the the update and then tried to install ant.

brew install ant

Ant was installed, but it also yeilded this alert:

Warning: No developer tools installed. You should install the Command Line Tools. Run xcode-select --install to install them.

xcode-select --install

Now, everything is running fine.

Benxamin

Posted 2013-06-20T18:28:51.283

Reputation: 301

As an alternative to Homebrew, you can always download a binary distribution of Ant from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi. It works fine on OS X Mavericks.

Just download it, unzip/untar it, and add its bin directory to your PATH.

Kristopher Johnson

Posted 2013-06-20T18:28:51.283

Reputation: 1 570

The sequence that worked for me:

xcode-select --install
brew update
brew install ant

matt burns

Posted 2013-06-20T18:28:51.283

Reputation: 746

It works, but I get: "Warning: A newer Command Line Tools release is available Update them from Software Update in the App Store." but there are no updates on the app store. – Bram – 2013-11-27T18:21:24.920

I usually install ant via Homebrew. There is a pretty good documentation .

Good luck.

iltempo

Posted 2013-06-20T18:28:51.283

Reputation: 147

I followed the documentation and it worked for me. – pushya – 2014-07-29T18:15:31.953

2That post doesn't even recommend itself anymore! – matt burns – 2013-11-21T14:17:36.900

I had ant installed before upgrading to Mavericks. Afterwards, ant didn't work at all. The ONLY thing that worked for me was this:

brew uninstall ant

brew install ant

Scott

Posted 2013-06-20T18:28:51.283

Reputation: 11