Issue
I am trying to install NetBeans.
As you can see if you click on the link, I had to install ant first. So I went there, downloaded the zip file an uncompressed it in /Users/myname/ and added this to my ./bash_profile:
export ANT_HOME=/Users/myname/ant
export PATH=$PATH:usr/local/bin:$ANT_HOME/bin
I couldn't make ant work so I finally ended up installing it using HomeBrew: brew install ant.
From there I had access to the ant command line.
Then I downloaded the binaries of NetBeans, uncompressed it in /Users/myname/ and cd into it to run ant as requested in the netbeans installation instructions.
But I get the following error:
Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
Build failed
How can I solve this error ?
Solution
You seem to mix things up. If you just want to use NetBeans you only need to download the binaries, extract the archive and start NetBeans via [netbeans]/bin/netbeans.sh
You need Ant only if you want to compile NetBeans from the sources. In this case make sure Ant is available in version >= 1.10 and you downloaded and extracted the source archive. The binaries archive is not needed.
Answered By - Joachim Rohde
