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				Enter the URL: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
				
			
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				On the Apache Ant Project page, find the heading 
          Current Release of Ant.
				
			
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				Select apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz [PGP] [SHA1] 
          [MD5].
				
			
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				Save and extract the package file into a Linux home 
          directory.
			
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				Set the ANT_OPTS environment variable.
			   
			    export ANT_OPTS="-Xmx256M" 
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				Set the ANT_HOME environment variable 
              to the directory where you installed Ant.
			   
			    export ANT_HOME=${ant_dir}
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					Set the PATH environment variable to include the directory where you installed the Ant bin directory.
			   
			    export PATH=${ANT_HOME}/bin:${JAVA_HOME}/bin:${PATH}