Travis CI doesn't install Ant while using language: java

Languages Java
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My build is failing (link), because Ant isn’t installed. My build script is rather simple:

language: java

What I’m missing? It’s probably pretty broad question. I’ve read a few wiki pages about it, and I was pretty much sure that you’ve got ant OOTB on your container.

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I’ve followed this article and left the travis file as the website was stating. It still doesn’t work, tho.

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Use

addons:
  apt:
    packages:
      ant

This will get you ant 1.9.6.

To get a later version, install it manually.

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ant is not preinstalled in xenial. It is preinstalled in trusty (from apt package). mvn and gradle are present in both.

The docs do mention this fact: JVM (Clojure, Groovy, Java, Scala) support - The Xenial Build Environment - Travis CI doesn’t list ant among preinstalled tools.

You can suggest a better wording for https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/java/ at https://github.com/travis-ci/docs-travis-ci-com/edit/master/user/languages/java.md to make this more clear so that others don’t fall into the same trap.

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