>> Does anyone know what happened to Ant in RHEL4? > > if yum install ant does not work then download the tarball and use the > binary from that? Yes, thank you, but since RHEL supports jpackage I would just grab the rpm from there. The actual question was why it had been dropped since RHEL3. I was hoping that it had really been merged with another package that I just somehow missed when searching the provides lists. The whole movement to using gcj and gcc-java is annoying. j