Apache Maven - Installation

Apache Maven is an innovative software project management tool, provides new concept of a project object model (POM) file to manage project’s build, dependency and documentation. The most powerful feature is able to download the project dependency libraries automatically.

We will show you how to install Apache Maven 3 on Ubuntu 12.

  1. Searching for Maven Package
    In a terminal, run apt-cache search maven to get all the available Maven package. The maven 
    package always comes with latest Apache Maven.

    $ apt-cache search maven
    ....
    libxmlbeans-maven-plugin-java-doc - Documentation for Maven XMLBeans Plugin
    maven - Java software project management and comprehension tool
    maven-debian-helper - Helper tools for building Debian packages with Maven
    maven2 - Java software project management and comprehension tool
  2. Installing Maven Package
    Run the below command 
    to install the latest Apache Maven.
    $ sudo apt-get install maven
  3. Verifying Maven Installation
    Run the below command to verify installation.

    $ mvn -version
    Apache Maven 3.0.4
    Maven home: /usr/share/maven
    Java version: 1.7.0_09, vendor: Oracle Corporation
    Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre
    Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
    OS name: "linux", version: "3.5.0-17-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
  4. Location of Maven after Installation
    Maven is installed in the directory /usr/share/maven. 


    $ls -l /usr/share/maven
    total 16
    4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb  7 01:28 bin
    4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb  7 01:28 boot
    0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   10 Feb 28  2012 conf -> /etc/maven
    4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb  7 01:28 lib
    4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb  7 01:28 man
    Maven configuration files are stored in /etc/maven

  5. $ls -l /etc/maven
    total 16
     4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   184 Feb 7  2012 m2.conf
    12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10224 Feb 7  2012 settings.xml

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