Updating Ant On Ubuntu
02 Jun 20161. Get source archive
From: ant download page
2. Extract contents of the source archive (assuming a tar.gz archive and version 1.9.7)
> tar xvf apache-ant-1.9.7-src.tar.gz
> cd apache-ant-1.9.7
3. Fetch dependencies
> ant -f fetch.xml -Ddest=user
4. Build
> sh build.sh -Ddist.dir=bin dist
5. Install
Uninstall the previous version of ant.
> sudo mkdir /usr/local/ant
> cd bin
> sudo cp -r * /usr/local/ant
6. Setup Environment (assuming bash)
> export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
> export PATH=${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin
Also, setup JAVA_HOME if not already done.
7. Check
Open a new terminal.
> ant -version
> Apache Ant(TM) version 1.9.7 compiled on June 1 2016
All Set !!