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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!

Darth Android
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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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Ethan Mateja
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  • Worked like a charm. – Robert Karl Jun 24 '13 at 22:12
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    `brew install homebrew/dupes/ant` also works. – Jess Oct 22 '13 at 23:41
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    as of today, you just need brew install ant – awenkhh Oct 23 '13 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 '13 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: http://blog.xk72.com/post/53124504531/homebrew-dupes-installing-ant-on-mac-os-x ) – helios Oct 29 '13 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 03 '13 at 23:22
  • To get around the issue mentioned in my previous message, I edited `/usr/local/Library/Formula/ant.rb` and replaced the URL there with `http://www.us.apache.org/dist/ant/binaries/apache-ant-1.9.2-bin.tar.gz`. (Maybe `http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi` used to return a redirect, and it doesn't do this anymore?) – avernet Nov 03 '13 at 23:33
  • @Alessandro Vernet in doing so, you will have a conflict when running brew update. You should at least do a git -a commit 'your message' to have clean repo in /usr/local/Library/Formula – awenkhh Nov 04 '13 at 12:12
  • @awenkhh Good point. I just ran `git co ant.rb` afterwards, to clean up my changes, since I most likely won't need to run this in the future anymore. – avernet Nov 04 '13 at 17:10
  • It seems that homebrew does NOT create the needed (by some tools like cocos2dx-android) ant_path. – Jonny Apr 22 '15 at 07:18
  • Install specific version (1.9): `brew install ant@1.9` – Al Belsky Jun 02 '17 at 14:58
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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 '13 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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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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