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After upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks, ant is no longer on my path.

[126] 11:23:26 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > ant
zsh: permission denied: ant
[126] 11:23:50 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > which ant
ant not found

I tried installing through homebrew

[126] 11:23:09 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > brew install ant
Error: No available formula for ant

It's odd that homebrew doesn't have a formula for that....

After googling, I found this article, which suggested using a user's custom formula for brew.

[1] 11:23:56 rkarl-mba-4:~/mobile-baselayer > brew install https://raw.github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/master/duplicates/ant.rb

curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found
Error: Failure while executing: /usr/bin/curl -f#LA Homebrew\ 0.9.4\ (Ruby\ 1.8.7-358;\ Mac\ OS\ X\ 10.9) https://raw.github.com/adamv/homebrew-alt/master/duplicates/ant.rb -o /Library/Caches/Homebrew/Formula/ant.rb

Any help would be appreciated!

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It looks like the alternate repository was migrated. You can either enable the homebrew alternate repository or install directly after updating your brew: 

brew update
brew install ant
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    brew install homebrew/dupes/ant also works.
    – Jess
    Oct 22, 2013 at 23:41
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    as of today, you just need brew install ant
    – awenkhh
    Oct 23, 2013 at 12:55
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    Just as an aside: if you already have Homebrew installed (as I did, from a while back), make sure you perform a brew update before you try the accepted answer or else you may get a 404 error. It is good policy to update your formulas before install but I might have let that slip my mind...
    – Matt Ray
    Oct 23, 2013 at 14:30
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    I had 404 even after update. I've tried: brew tap homebrew/dupes and then brew install ant and worked. (Source: blog.xk72.com/post/53124504531/… )
    – helios
    Oct 29, 2013 at 13:45
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    @awenkhh But this gives ==> Downloading http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.2-bin.tar.gz. Error: Couldn't determine mirror. Try again later. While the URL mentioned in that error message loads find in the browser.
    – avernet
    Nov 3, 2013 at 23:22
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Upgraded to Mavericks this morning and found "command not found: ant"

brew update

Ran the the update and then tried to install ant.

brew install ant

Ant was installed, but it also yeilded this alert:

Warning: No developer tools installed. You should install the Command Line Tools. Run xcode-select --install to install them.

xcode-select --install

Now, everything is running fine.

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As an alternative to Homebrew, you can always download a binary distribution of Ant from http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi. It works fine on OS X Mavericks.

Just download it, unzip/untar it, and add its bin directory to your PATH.

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The sequence that worked for me:

xcode-select --install
brew update
brew install ant
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  • It works, but I get: "Warning: A newer Command Line Tools release is available Update them from Software Update in the App Store." but there are no updates on the app store.
    – Bram
    Nov 27, 2013 at 18:21
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I usually install ant via Homebrew. There is a pretty good documentation .

Good luck.

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    That post doesn't even recommend itself anymore!
    – matt burns
    Nov 21, 2013 at 14:17
  • I followed the documentation and it worked for me.
    – pushya
    Jul 29, 2014 at 18:15
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I had ant installed before upgrading to Mavericks. Afterwards, ant didn't work at all. The ONLY thing that worked for me was this:

brew uninstall ant

brew install ant

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