How to install Ant on CentOS

Step 1: Get Ant distribution from official website.

Step 2: Move Ant to a directory

Step 3: Unzip Ant distribution
tar xzf apache-ant-1.9.3-bin.tar.gz

Step 4: Set environment
export ANT_HOME=<Your ANT Directory>
export PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH

Step 5: Test ant
ant -version

Reference:
Install Apache Ant