How To Install ant on Debian 11
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ant on Debian 11.
What is ant
ant is:
Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications. Ant supplies a number of built-in tasks allowing to compile, assemble, test and run Java applications. Ant can also be used effectively to build non Java applications, for instance C or C++ applications. More generally, Ant can be used to pilot any type of process which can be described in terms of targets and tasks.
This package contains the scripts and the core tasks libraries.
There are three methods to install ant on Debian 11. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install ant Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install ant using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install ant
Install ant Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install ant using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install ant
Install ant Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install ant using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install ant
How To Uninstall ant on Debian 11
To uninstall only the ant package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove ant
Uninstall ant And Its Dependencies
To uninstall ant and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 11, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove ant
Remove ant Configurations and Data
To remove ant configuration and data from Debian 11 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge ant
Remove ant configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove ant configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge ant
Dependencies
ant have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ant package on Debian 11 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.