So, I am running the Android SDK on my Fedora 14 PC . Until yesterday, everything worked for me - Ant 1.7 , Eclipse 3.6.1 (Helios) , and I did not create my Android applications without problems.
Then I went into eclipse and installed the updates. Now I am launching a new 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 do not see a way to return to the old SDK.
So, as far as I can tell, I need to remove Ant 1.7 , and then manually install Ant 1.8 (and all the dependencies that go with it, see below).
If I just reinstalled everything, I would be there too, because the Android SDK will still require Ant 1.8 , and Fedora will only offer Ant 1.7 .
Has anyone else encountered or solved this problem? Any advice?
The snippet below shows the output of the yum remove command, which displays all the ant dependencies that 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 trying to compile with 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)