install ant and svn ant on ubuntu 8.X or later

1 install and config the ant(JRE has installed)

sudo apt-get install ant ant-optional
echo ‘ANT_HOME=”/usr/share/ant”‘ | sudo tee -a /etc/environment

2 download the svnant

firefox http://subclipse.tigris.org/svnant.html

3 unzip svnant-1.2.1.zip, and put lib/*.jar files to your ANT_HOME/lib directory
4 test it with the following build.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="svn-test" default="Main" basedir=".">
 <!-- Sets variables which can be used. -->
 <property name="checkout" location="./svncheckout" />
 <!-- Define the classpath which includes the jars that are required for svnant.jar -->
 <path id="svnant.class.path">
  <pathelement location="lib/svnant.jar" />
  <pathelement location="lib/svnClientAdapter.jar" />
  <pathelement location="lib/svnjavahl.jar" />
  <pathelement location="lib/svnkit.jar" />
 </path>

 <typedef resource="org/tigris/subversion/svnant/svnantlib.xml" classpathref="svnant.class.path" />


 <!-- Deletes the existing build, docs and dist directory-->
 <target name="clean">
  <delete dir="${checkout}" />
 </target>

 <!-- Creates the  build, docs and dist directory-->
 <target name="makedir">
  <mkdir dir="${checkout}" />
 </target>


 <!-- Checkout the latest source code of svnant itself-->
 <target name="svn">
  <svn username="guest" password="">
   <checkout url="http://subclipse.tigris.org/svn/subclipse/trunk/svnant/" revision="HEAD" destPath="${checkout}" />
  </svn>
 </target>

 <target name="Main" depends="clean, makedir, svn">
  <description>Main target</description>
 </target>
</project>

edwin@Castor:~/Desktop/svnTest$ ant
Buildfile: build.xml

clean:
   [delete] Deleting directory /home/edwin/Desktop/svnTest/svncheckout

makedir:
    [mkdir] Created dir: /home/edwin/Desktop/svnTest/svncheckout

svn:
      [svn]  started ...
      [svn]  finished.

Main:

BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 1 minute 58 seconds