How to Install Maven in Linux

Its really simple

• You can download a binary release of Maven from http://maven.apache.org/download.html.

• Exact it and copy it to the /usr/local

• Use following steps

  • /usr/local % cd /usr/local

  • /usr/local % ln -s apache-maven-2.2.1 maven

  • /usr/local % export M2_HOME=/usr/local/maven

  • /usr/local % export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

• You also need to set the environment variable M2_HOME to the top-level directory you installed (in this example, /usr/local/maven)

• export M2_HOME=/usr/local/maven

• export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH} 

Once Maven is installed, you can check the version by running mvn -v from the command-line. If Maven has been installed, you should see something resembling the following output. 

$ mvn -v Apache Maven 2.2.0 (r788681; 2009-06-26 08:04:01-0500) Java version: 1.5.0_19 Java home: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman OS name: "mac os x" version: "10.5.7" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"