Gant is currently at version 1.9.0. The following downloads are available:
| 1.9.1 Source | Tarball | Zipfile |
| 1.9.1 Binary, compiled for use with Groovy 1.6.7 installation | Tarball | Zipfile |
| 1.9.1 Binary, compiled for use with Groovy 1.7.0 installation | Tarball | Zipfile |
| 1.9.1 Binary, standalone installation | Tarball | Zipfile |
Installation of any of the binary distributions is simply a matter of extracting the distribution to the desired location. A directory gant-1.9.1 will be created.
The jars have been uploaded to the Codehaus Maven repository, the groupId is org.codehaus.gant, the artifactId is one of gant_groovy1.6, gant_groovy1.7 (indicating which Groovy version the artefact was compiled against), and the version is 1.9.1.
Ubuntu and Debian users can install Gant using the usual package management system (apt-get and/or dpkg). Lenny (stable) has Gant 1.3.0 http://packages.debian.org/lenny/gant. Squeeze (testing) has Gant 1.8.1 http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gant, as has Sid (unstable) http://packages.debian.org/sid/gant. Gant always depends on the Groovy package which in Lenny is 1.5.6, and in Squeeze and Sid is 1.6.4 (as at 2009-12-31 12:42:00+00:00). Ubuntu Intrepid has Gant 1.3.0 http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/gant, Jaunty has Gant 1.5.0 http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/gant, Karmic has Gant 1.6.1 http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/gant, and Lucid has Gant 1.8.1 http://packages.ubuntu/com/lucid/gant all of which depend on the Groovy package, Intrepid has 1.5.6, Jaunty has 1.5.7, Karmic has 1.6.3, and Lucid has 1.6.4. If you want to stay more up to date but don't want to install from source, there is the following deb file which creates a stand-alone installation of Gant with all the dependencies it needs, including Groovy 1.7.0:
| Gant 1.9.1 standalone | Deb |
Mac OS X users can get Gant, and Groovy, using MacPorts. As at 2009-10-13 17:35+01:00 this is fully up to date with Gant 1.8.1 and Groovy 1.6.5.
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/11678489/com/gant-1.6.0-5.1.noarch.rpm.html reports that Gant 1.6.0 has been packaged for OpenSuSE. It depends on Groovy 1.5.7 being installed. More recent versions of Gant may available through the OpenSUSE build service.
Ealier distributions are available at http://dist.codehaus.org/gant/distributions as are snapshots of the next release, if available.
