Question

I had the exact some problem as mentioned here:
Unable to properly install binary edition of Apache Ant .

I followed the steps by replacing http://repository.jboss.org/maven2 with https://repository.jboss.org/nexus/content/repositories/thirdparty-releases/ but am still getting this error:

jspc:
[artifact:dependencies] Downloading: tomcat/jasper-compiler/4.1.36/jasper-compil
er-4.1.36.pom
[artifact:dependencies] [WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository remote
(http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/)
[artifact:dependencies] Downloading: tomcat/jasper-compiler/4.1.36/jasper-compil
er-4.1.36.pom
[artifact:dependencies] [WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central
 (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
[artifact:dependencies] Downloading: tomcat/jasper-runtime/4.1.36/jasper-runtime
-4.1.36.pom
[artifact:dependencies] [WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository remote
(http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/)
[artifact:dependencies] Downloading: tomcat/jasper-runtime/4.1.36/jasper-runtime
-4.1.36.pom
[artifact:dependencies] [WARNING] Unable to get resource from repository central
 (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)

This is the only module that doesn’t install. Can one of you generous souls graciously help this lowly noob out? Thanks.

Answer 1

Those versions of of the jasper modules are missing POM files in Maven Central. That is why the download is failing:

• jasper-compiler
• jasper-runtime

Is it possible to use more recent versions?

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Update

The various libraries versions are controlled by the following file:

$ANT_HOME/lib/libraries.properties

Version 1.8.2 of ANT appears to be broken.I tried tweaking this file and finally gave up and upgraded to the latest version of ANT:

$ ant -version
Apache Ant(TM) version 1.8.3 compiled on February 26 2012

$ ant -f $ANT_HOME/fetch.xml -Ddest=user

I suggest an upgrade, or alternative take a copy of this version’s properties file.