Installing or Upgrading Ant in Mac OSX

First of all Ant already come with Mac OSX, but if you really need to install it or want to upgrade it, though, the best way would be to install it through MacPorts (using sudo port install apache-ant). To install it manually you can follow these simple steps:

1. Download latest Ant build from: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
2. Check previous version of ant on your mac <span class="pln">ant </span><span class="pun">--</span><span class="pln">version</span>
3. Go to your downloads folder or folder where you downloaded Ant bundle.
4. Extract the bundle <span class="pln">tar </span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">xvzf apache</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">ant</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="lit">1.8</span><span class="pun">.</span><span class="lit">1</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">bin</span><span class="pun">.</span><span class="pln">tar</span><span class="pun">.</span><span class="pln">gz </span>
5. Ensure that /usr/local exists; if not found can be created by <span class="pln">sudo mkdir </span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">p </span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">usr</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="kwd">local</span>
6. Copy it into /usr/local <span class="pln">sudo cp </span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">rf apache</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">ant</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="lit">1.8</span><span class="pun">.</span><span class="lit">1</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">bin </span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">usr</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="kwd">local</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">apache</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">ant</span>
7. Add the new version of Ant to current terminal session <span class="kwd">export</span><span class="pln"> PATH</span><span class="pun">=</span><span class="str">/usr/</span><span class="kwd">local</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">apache</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">ant</span><span class="pun">/</span><span class="pln">bin</span><span class="pun">:</span><span class="str">"$PATH"</span>
8. Add the new version of Ant to future terminal sessions <span class="pln">echo </span><span class="str">'export PATH=/usr/local/apache-ant/bin:"$PATH"'</span><span class="pln"> </span><span class="pun">&gt;&gt;</span><span class="pln"> </span><span class="pun">~/.</span><span class="pln">profile</span>

Now check new version of ant on you mac.