Simple Installation-Check.

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+<h3><a name="checkInstallation">Check Installation</a></h3>
+<p>You can check the basic installation with opening a new shell and typing <tt>ant</tt>. You
+should get a message like this
+<pre>
+Buildfile: build.xml does not exist!
+Build failed
+</pre>
+So Ant works. This message is there because you need to write an individual buildfile for your 
+project. With a <tt>ant -version</tt> you should get an output like
+<pre>
+Apache Ant version 1.7.0 compiled on December 13 2006
+</pre> 
+
+
+</p>
+
 <h3><a name="optionalTasks">Optional Tasks</a></h3>
 <p>Ant supports a number of optional tasks. An optional task is a task which
 typically requires an external library to function. The optional tasks are

docs/manual/installlist.html

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 <p><a href="install.html#getting">Getting Ant</a><br/>
   <a href="install.html#sysrequirements">System Requirements</a><br/>
   <a href="install.html#installing">Installing Ant</a><br/>
+  <a href="install.html#checkInstallation">Check Installation</a><br/>
   <a href="install.html#buildingant">Building Ant</a><br/>
   <a href="install.html#librarydependencies">Library Dependencies</a><br/>
   <a href="platform.html">Platform Specific Issues</a><br/>