UPDATE: Note the comment below which points out that you can simply "apt-get install ant1.8". Trying to build a "Hello, World" app in Android, I built a skeletal project per Developing In Other IDEs page: android create project \ --target 1 \ --name MyAndroidApp \ --path ./MyAndroidAppProject \ --activity MyAndroidAppActivity \ --package com.example.myandroid After "apt-get install ant", I tried t