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Andy
Andy

Reputation: 2603

Installing ant using homebrew on MAC OS X 10.11 not working properly

I installed Apache ant on my MAC OS X 10.11 today using Homebrew.

I saw following warning after running brew install ant command on MAC terminal : -

Warning: ant-1.9.6 already installed, it's just not linked.


Then I tried to check if ant is working properly or not by typing ant -version command on MAC Terminal window. I am receiving following error :

-bash: ant: command not found


Is it because my ANT HOME Path is not set properly or it is not able to find the JAVA PATH ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5579

Answers (1)

cel
cel

Reputation: 31349

brew installs software into a special directory named Cellar. After installation executables are linked symbolically to /usr/local/bin. This folder is in your PATH and therefore you can directly call all executables by typing the command.

Warning: ant-1.9.6 already installed, it's just not linked.

If you see this warning, the package is in Cellar, but not linked to /usr/local/bin. A simple brew link ant will do the linking step for you.

Upvotes: 6

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