where is ant installed on Mac OS X snow leopard by default?

Question

I don\'t have ANT_HOME set, so i want to find where the home directory of ant is. I\'m using the version of ant that was installed by default on my OSX install.

Answer 1

Follow these instructions to find the location of any package:

whereis ant (replace 'ant' with whatever you're looking for)

On my machine, this reports:

/usr/bin/ant

so, I do:

ls -l /usr/bin/ant

on my machine this reports:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  22 Nov 30 17:09 /usr/bin/ant -> /usr/share/ant/bin/ant

so, I do :

ls -l /usr/share/ant 

and get:

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  14 Nov 30 17:09 /usr/share/ant -> java/ant-1.8.1

from this I can surmise that ant is installed at /usr/share/ant/java/ant-1.8.1

Answer 2

I do not had ANT at all in whole system, but i use NetBeans 8.1 or 8.2.

Step 1: Install NetBeans 8.2

Step 2: Apply the ant from NetBeans 8.2 does the easy job too

$ "/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/bin/ant" -diagnostics
------- Ant diagnostics report -------
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.7 compiled on April 9 2016

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 Implementation Version
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core tasks     : 1.9.7 in file:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans%208.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant.jar

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 ANT PROPERTIES
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ant.version: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.7 compiled on April 9 2016
ant.java.version: 1.8
Is this the Apache Harmony VM? no
Is this the Kaffe VM? no
Is this gij/gcj? no
ant.core.lib: /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant.jar
ant.home: /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant

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 ANT_HOME/lib jar listing
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ant.home: /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant
ant-antlr.jar (11563 bytes)
ant-apache-bcel.jar (15077 bytes)
ant-apache-bsf.jar (9827 bytes)
ant-apache-log4j.jar (8676 bytes)
ant-apache-oro.jar (9805 bytes)
ant-apache-regexp.jar (9671 bytes)
ant-apache-resolver.jar (9748 bytes)
ant-apache-xalan2.jar (8197 bytes)
ant-commons-logging.jar (9791 bytes)
ant-commons-net.jar (90789 bytes)
ant-jai.jar (28321 bytes)
ant-javamail.jar (13778 bytes)
ant-jdepend.jar (13826 bytes)
ant-jmf.jar (12386 bytes)
ant-jsch.jar (48991 bytes)
ant-junit.jar (117485 bytes)
ant-junit4.jar (13196 bytes)
ant-launcher.jar (18334 bytes)
ant-netrexx.jar (16279 bytes)
ant-swing.jar (13274 bytes)
ant-testutil.jar (27034 bytes)
ant.jar (2027962 bytes)

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 USER_HOME/.ant/lib jar listing
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user.home: /Users/sun
No such directory.

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 Tasks availability
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sshexec : Missing dependency com.jcraft.jsch.Logger
scp : Missing dependency com.jcraft.jsch.Logger
sshsession : Missing dependency com.jcraft.jsch.Logger
jdepend : Missing dependency jdepend.xmlui.JDepend
A task being missing/unavailable should only matter if you are trying to use it

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 org.apache.env.Which diagnostics
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Not available.
Download it at http://xml.apache.org/commons/

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 XML Parser information
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XML Parser : com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl
XML Parser Location: unknown
Namespace-aware parser : com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser
Namespace-aware parser Location: unknown

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 XSLT Processor information
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XSLT Processor : com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.trax.TransformerImpl
XSLT Processor Location: unknown

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 System properties
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java.runtime.name : Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment
sun.boot.library.path : /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib
java.vm.version : 25.31-b07
ant.library.dir : /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib
user.country.format : BE
gopherProxySet : false
java.vm.vendor : Oracle Corporation
java.vendor.url : http://java.oracle.com/
path.separator : :
java.vm.name : Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
file.encoding.pkg : sun.io
user.country : US
sun.java.launcher : SUN_STANDARD
sun.os.patch.level : unknown
java.vm.specification.name : Java Virtual Machine Specification
user.dir : /Users/sun/Desktop/android/android-webrtc-master
java.runtime.version : 1.8.0_31-b13
java.awt.graphicsenv : sun.awt.CGraphicsEnvironment
java.endorsed.dirs : /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/endorsed
os.arch : x86_64
java.io.tmpdir : /var/folders/zq/zqbl2b1x43g6kq5bxmgx39880000gn/T/
line.separator : 

java.vm.specification.vendor : Oracle Corporation
os.name : Mac OS X
ant.home : /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant
sun.jnu.encoding : UTF-8
java.library.path : /Users/sun/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java:.
java.specification.name : Java Platform API Specification
java.class.version : 52.0
sun.management.compiler : HotSpot 64-Bit Tiered Compilers
os.version : 10.11.6
http.nonProxyHosts : local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16
user.home : /Users/sun
user.timezone : Europe/Brussels
java.awt.printerjob : sun.lwawt.macosx.CPrinterJob
java.specification.version : 1.8
file.encoding : UTF-8
user.name : sun
java.class.path : /Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-antlr.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-apache-bcel.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-apache-bsf.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-apache-log4j.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-apache-oro.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-apache-regexp.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-apache-resolver.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-apache-xalan2.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-commons-logging.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-commons-net.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-jai.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-javamail.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-jdepend.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-jmf.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-jsch.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-junit.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-junit4.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-netrexx.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-swing.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant-testutil.jar:/Applications/NetBeans/NetBeans 8.2.app/Contents/Resources/NetBeans/extide/ant/lib/ant.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/lib/tools.jar
java.vm.specification.version : 1.8
sun.arch.data.model : 64
java.home : /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
sun.java.command : org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher -cp  -diagnostics
java.specification.vendor : Oracle Corporation
user.language : en
awt.toolkit : sun.lwawt.macosx.LWCToolkit
java.vm.info : mixed mode
java.version : 1.8.0_31
java.ext.dirs : /Users/sun/Library/Java/Extensions:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/ext:/Library/Java/Extensions:/Network/Library/Java/Extensions:/System/Library/Java/Extensions:/usr/lib/java
sun.boot.class.path : /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/resources.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/sunrsasign.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jsse.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jce.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/charsets.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/jfr.jar:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_31.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/classes
java.vendor : Oracle Corporation
file.separator : /
java.vendor.url.bug : http://bugreport.sun.com/bugreport/
sun.cpu.endian : little
sun.io.unicode.encoding : UnicodeBig
socksNonProxyHosts : local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16
ftp.nonProxyHosts : local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16
sun.cpu.isalist : 

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 Temp dir
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Temp dir is /var/folders/zq/zqbl2b1x43g6kq5bxmgx39880000gn/T/
Temp dir is writeable
Temp dir alignment with system clock is -6 ms

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 Locale information
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Timezone Central European Time offset=3600000

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 Proxy information
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http.nonProxyHosts = "local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16"
ftp.nonProxyHosts = "local|*.local|169.254/16|*.169.254/16"
Java1.5+ proxy settings:
Direct connection

Answer 3

If you run ant -diagnostics, it should tell you where the ant.home is

$ant -diagnostics 

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ANT PROPERTIES
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ant.version: Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.2 compiled on July 8 2013
ant.java.version: 1.6
ant.core.lib: /opt/local/share/java/apache-ant/lib/ant.jar
ant.home: /opt/local/share/java/apache-ant 

Answer 4

try looking in /usr/bin folder .. it should tell you where it is installed.