So I run the Android SDK on my Fedora 14 PC. Before yesterday I had everything working – Ant 1.7, Eclipse 3.6.1 (Helios), and I was building my Android apps no problem.
Then I went into eclipse and installed updates. Now I’m running a newer Android SDK and it requires a later version of Ant (1.8). The latest version of ant available in Fedora 14 is Ant 1.7. I don’t see a way to get back to the old sdk.
So as far as I can tell, what I need to do is remove Ant 1.7 and then manually install Ant 1.8 (and all the dependencies that go with it, see below).
If I just re-installed everything, I would end up in the same place because the Android SDK would still require Ant 1.8 and Fedora would still only offer Ant 1.7.
Has anybody else encountered or solved this problem yet? Any advice?
The hfollowing snippet shows the output of a yum remove command, which shows all the dependencies of ant which I would have to manually install:
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Package Arch Version Repository Size
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Removing:
ant i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 5.4 M
Removing for dependencies:
ant-antlr i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 34 k
ant-apache-bcel i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 34 k
ant-apache-bsf i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 23 k
ant-apache-log4j i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 18 k
ant-apache-oro i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 169 k
ant-apache-regexp i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 19 k
ant-apache-resolver i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 20 k
ant-commons-logging i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 23 k
ant-commons-net i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 196 k
ant-javamail i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 33 k
ant-jdepend i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 72 k
ant-jsch i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 124 k
ant-junit i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 387 k
ant-nodeps i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 1.6 M
ant-swing i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 35 k
ant-trax i686 1.7.1-13.fc13 @fedora 95 k
eclipse-jdt i686 1:3.6.1-4.fc14 @updates 25 M
eclipse-pde i686 1:3.6.1-4.fc14 @updates 90 M
eclipse-platform i686 1:3.6.1-4.fc14 @updates 34 M
jetty noarch 6.1.24-1.fc14 @fedora 2.7 M
Transaction Summary
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Remove 21 Package(s)
Error observed when trying to compile using ant:
build.xml:121: The Android Ant-based build system requires Ant 1.8.0 or later. Current version is 1.7.1
Eclipse is in a “hosed” state
An internal error occurred during: "Refreshing external folders".
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.ExternalFoldersManager$RefreshJob.run(ExternalFoldersManager.java:387)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)
You can take newest ant package from ant rpm package
Get all rpm needed and after install it with yum.
Something like:
$ wget -r -A.rpm k -nc -l1 -e robots=off http://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/packages/ant/1.8.2/3.fc15/noarch/
$ su -c ‘ yum –nogpgcheck install $(find kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/ -name “*.rpm”) ‘