Installing ant 1.8.2 onto ubuntu 11.10

Download ant and copy it under /usr/lib:

cd /usr/lib
sudo tar xvfz /media/host/apache-ant-1.8.2-bin.tar.gz
sudo ln -s apache-ant-1.8.2 apache-ant
sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/ant ant /usr/lib/apache-ant/bin/ant 1