How to set ANT_HOME on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04?

Question

It looks like Ubuntu uses ~/.bashrc, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.pam_profile, /etc/environment, and /etc/profile in very

Answer 1

First, open bash file with following code.

xxx@xxx-desktop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

Then, Insert Java home as path to JDK location and ANT home as path ANT location as mentioned below at the end of bash file. I entered path for locations according to my machine.

  export ANT_HOME=/usr/share/ant
 export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun
 set path=$path $ANT_HOME/bin

Eventually, save and close the file. If you configured correctly, the terminal must show following note with the command “ant –version”.

      xxx@xxx-desktop:~$ ant -version

Apache Ant version 1.7.1 compiled on November 10 2008 It means configuration is Ok.