ant-contrib software package provides collection of tasks, types and other tools for Apache Ant, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install ant-contrib
ant-contrib is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ant-contrib package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ant-contrib *
You will get with ant-contrib package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Java |
| Package | ant-contrib |
| Version | 1.0~b3+svn177-7 |
| Description | collection of tasks, types and other tools for Apache Ant |
| Sub Section | Java |