Monday, November 11, 2013

How to install maven on linux?

Step-1: Download the maven binary package from http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Step-2: Extract the tar file: tar -xvzf apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

Step-3: Create a folder in /usr/local with the name apache-maven and extract the above tar file in this directory which gives the file structure as: /usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.1.1

Step-4: Set your path variables as below:
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.1.1
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export PATH=$M2:$PATH

Step-5: To check if maven is successfully installed: mvn --version


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