Author: Jen Linton
Keywords: installing DITA Open Toolkit, Ant, installing on Linux, ANT_HOME, ANT_OPTS, ANT_HOME environment variable, ANT_OPTS environment variable

# Installing Ant on Linux

1. Enter the URL: http://ant.apache.org/bindownload.cgi.
2. On the Apache Ant Project page, find the heading Current Release of Ant.
3. Select apache-ant-1.7.1-bin.tar.gz [PGP] [SHA1] [MD5].
4. Save and extract the package file into a Linux home directory.
5. Set the ANT_OPTS environment variable.

       export ANT_OPTS="-Xmx256M"

6. Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to the directory where you installed Ant.

       export ANT_HOME=${ant_dir}

7. 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}

Parent topic: Installing the minimal package on Linux