0) Install a 1.4+ JDK, Ant 1.6.4+

1) Check out a working copy of to a local directory:
> svn co http://muness.textdriven.com/svn/edu/buildtasks

2) Copy ./lib/ant_home_lib/* to your ANT_HOME/lib

3) Define the location you checked out the build scripts, and system wide jar libraries in ${user.home}/local.build.properties.
e.g., on Windows, create a c:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\local.build.properties with the following:
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build.dir=c:/buildtasks
LIB.TOOLS=c:/j2sdk1.4.2_08/lib/tools.jar
LIB.JUNIT=c:/jars/junit.jar
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