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Ant needs tools.jar and unable to find it

I am putting together a dev environment for a Java program and after the first try of my Ant build scripts I got this error:

Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/lib/tools.jar

While the path to the jdk is correct, the tools.jar really wasn't there. Is it actually supposed to be there or did I get some config/installation thing wrong?

Solution

  • It's there on my machine. I'm running Sun JDK 1.6.0_21 on Windows XP SP3.

    Are you sure you have the JDK? Is it possible that you only have the JRE?