ant-contrib-cpptasks software package provides C/C++ compilation tasks for 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-cpptasks
ant-contrib-cpptasks is installed in your system.
Make ensure the ant-contrib-cpptasks package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep ant-contrib-cpptasks *
You will get with ant-contrib-cpptasks package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Java |
| Package | ant-contrib-cpptasks |
| Version | 1.0~b5-2 |
| Description | C/C++ compilation tasks for Ant. |
| Sub Section | Java |