Problem with Ant/Antelope in JEdit

I am attempting to install the Antelope plugin in JEdit. Actually the installation of the plugin isn't the problem. Rather configuring the plugin after installation is the problem. The configuration procedure for the Antelope plugin requires the location of Ant. Ant is installed on my 9.3 partition in /usr/bin. Because the permissions on /usr/bin are root/root the configuration process doesn't see the executables. How do I solve this problem? Thanks in advance. -- Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry