Question

The version of Ubuntu I use provides FOP 0.95. Its having problems, so I wanted to try the latest version of FOP. I successfully downloaded and built the sources.

Unfortunately, I can’t figure out how to install FOP 1.0. The build instructions (https://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/1.0/compiling.html) did not cover the topic, and the README does not offer any instructions.

I naively tried ant install --prefix=/usr/local which failed. Ant listed its flags and switches, but did not include an install option. Next, I performed sudo cp ./fop /usr/local/bin, which resulted in the following

$fop -V
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/fop/cli/Main
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.fop.cli.Main
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:217)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:205)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:321)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:294)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:266)
Could not find the main class: org.apache.fop.cli.Main. Program will exit.

How does one install a program with Ant?

Jeff

Answer 1

Uncompress the download to a directory.

Add that directory to your path.

export PATH=~/tech/lang/java/fop/fop-1.0/:$PATH

That’s it:
Daves-MacBook-Pro:~ Dave$ fop -V

USAGE
fop [options] [-fo|-xml] infile [-xsl file] [-awt|-pdf|-mif|-rtf|-tiff|-png|-pcl|-ps|-txt|-at [mime]|-print] <outfile>
 [OPTIONS]  
  -version          print FOP version and exit
  -d                debug mode   
  -x                dump configuration settings  
  # etc...