Installing the Ant Migration Tool on Linux

The installation steps are as follows:

  1. Download the Force.com Migration Tool from https://developer.salesforce.com/page/Force.com_Migration_Tool:
#wget https://gs0.Salesforce.com/dwnld/SfdcAnt/Salesforce_ant_39.0.zip
  1. Save the .zip file locally and extract the contents to the directory of your choice:
#unzip Salesforce_ant_39.0.zip
Note that, in our case, it is /home/devops/Force_com_tool.
  1. After unzipping Salesforce_ant_39.0.zip, you will find ant-Salesforce.jar; this is required to run Ant tasks. Copy Salesforce_ant_39.0.zip to another folder named Sample, which has examples for deploying and retrieving metadata from a sandbox in codepkgclasses, removecodepkg. Also the Sample folder contains ...

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