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<body>
<h1>Installing Ant</h1>
<h2><a name="getting">Getting Ant</a></h2>

<h3>Download Area Layout</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Filename</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>KEYS</td>
<td>PGP-Keysfile. It contains the PGP-keys of Ant developers so you can 'trust' the distribution. </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RELEASE-NOTES-{version}.html</td>
<td>
Release notes of the given version in HTML format. When upgrading your Ant installation you
should have a look on the <i>Changes that could break older environments</i> section.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ant-current-bin.zip</td>
<td>
ZIP-Archive containing the compiled version of Ant in the last released version. This is the file
most of the users want to have.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ant-current-src.zip</td>
<td>
ZIP-Archive containing the sources of Ant. If you have this you could compile Ant itself.
If you do not have the <i>required</i> dependencies, the classes depeding on them are just not
build.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ant-current-*.asc</td>
<td>
Security file for checking the correctness of the zip file. This one is the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy" target="_blank">PGP</a> key.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ant-current-*.md5</td>
<td>
Security file for checking the correctness of the zip file. This one is the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5" target="_blank">MD5</a> key.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>ant-current-*.sha1</td>
<td>
Security file for checking the correctness of the zip file. This one is the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1" target="_blank">SHA1</a> key.
</td>
</tr>

</table>



<h3>Binary Edition</h3>
<p>The latest stable version of Ant is available from the Ant web page <a
href="http://ant.apache.org/" target="_top">http://ant.apache.org/</a>.


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