There is also a warning on the download pages. I'm open to ideas about how
to make this clearer
Conor
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Sent: Saturday, August 04, 2001 4:53 AM
Subject: RE: Installation problems
> *sigh* This is a known issue.
> You need the gnu tar (http://www.gnu.org/directory/tar.html) instead of
> the tar that comes with solaris.
>
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=98528986110779&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=98460482112823&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=98396718904044&w=2
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=99564488020544&w=2
> ...
> Feel free to check the archives for more information.
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user
>
> /bill
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rdonnip [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 1:49 PM
> To: ant-user
> Cc: rdonnip
> Subject: Installation problems
>
>
> Hi,
> I am a newbie to ant and I am having a trouble with installing Ant on a
> unix machine. I am doing the following steps.
>
> 1. I have down loaded the latest release build - that is
> jakarta-ant-1_3-bin_tar.gz
> 2. Used gunzip and tar -xvf on the gzipped file.
> 3. The untaring ends with "tar: directory checksum error"
> 4. The untarred directory has only bin and docs directories. lib is
> missing.
> 5. After setting path to java, class path to Xerces' jar when I try
> torun 'ant -buildfile my.xml' the following error is encountered.
>
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError:
> org/apache/tools/ant/
> Main
>
> I would appreciate any help.
>
> Thanks,
> Ramesh
>
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