How To Install ant-contrib on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install ant-contrib on CentOS 7. ant-contrib is Collection of tasks for Ant

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ant-contrib on CentOS 7.

What is `ant-contrib`

The Ant-Contrib project is a collection of tasks (and at one point maybe types and other tools) for Apache Ant.

We can use yum or dnf to install ant-contrib on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ant-contrib.

Install ant-contrib on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ant-contrib using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ant-contrib

Install ant-contrib on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install ant-contrib using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ant-contrib

How To Uninstall ant-contrib on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the ant-contrib package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ant-contrib

References

ant-contrib website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ant-contrib on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.