This turned out to be a combination of several problems:
- Ant is a required dependency, although it's not documented as a dependency as far as I can tell from any of the install guides the ionic guide or cordova guide point to. In fact I found this out by digging around SO and a few other dark corners of the internet
- JDK must also be installed. (not just JRE)
- 2 folders have to be added to the path (for Android anyways).
Ant
This can be installed via sudo apt-get install ant
.
jdk
sudo update-alternatives --config java
first, you can find out if you have jdk by running `sudo update-alternatives --get-selections | grep ^java
if you already have the jdk, you can update your jre to the jdk version using sudo update-alternatives --config java
if not, then install jdk (not just the jre), using sudo apt-get install openjdk-7-jdk
Path setting in ~/.bashrc
$ cd ~
$ sudo vi .bashrc
at the bottom, before the PATH=
add the path to the bundle folders for both platform-tools
folder and the tools
folder under the sdk
folder. Several of the guides only mention the platform-tools
folder.
The guide specifically mentions ios can't be installed on Windows, but strangely leaves out Linux. This may be an oversight, but I can't be sure. There was some indication in the ionic guides that ios emulation could be done on linux, even though actual development could only be done on OSx.
the ios platform requires xcode 4.5 with cordova, which needs OSx 10.7 you basically can't add the ios platform tools on Windows or Linux. Unfortunately cordova and ionic both seem to forget Linux exists, and therefore the docs imply this will run on Linux when they note inoperability on Windows but say nothing about Linux.