Mac update Ant

Installing or Upgrading Ant in Mac OSX

~ Android, Mac, Objective C

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

   ant --version

3. Go to your downloads folder or folder where you downloaded Ant bundle.
4. Extract the bundle

   tar -xvzf apache-ant-1.8.1-bin.tar.gz 

5. Ensure that /usr/local exists; if not found can be created by

   sudo mkdir -p /usr/local

6. Copy it into /usr/local

   sudo cp -rf apache-ant-1.8.1-bin /usr/local/apache-ant

7. Add the new version of Ant to current terminal session

   export PATH=/usr/local/apache-ant/bin:$PATH;

8. Add the new version of Ant to future terminal sessions

   echo 'export PATH=/usr/local/apache-ant/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile

Now check new version of ant on you mac.