How to install Maven in Linux OS

Direct Installation:

We can use the yum repository to directly install the maven in our system

yum install maven

Alternative of Yum

Download Apache Maven

Start by downloading the Apache Maven in the using the following wget command:

wget https://www-us.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.5.4/binaries/apache-maven-3.5.4-bin.tar.gz

Extract the tar file using the folllowing command:

tar xf apache-maven-3.5.4-bin.tar.gz

Setup environment variables

Next, we’ll need to set up the environment variables. Open your text editor and create a new file named maven.sh inside of the /etc/profile.d/ directory.

vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

First enter i to get in the insert mode

Paste the following lines:

export M2_HOME=/usr/local/src/apache-maven
export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

 

Afer pasting the code press ESC then :wq for quit and save

Make the script executable by running the following chmod command:

sudo chmod +x /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

Load the environment variables using the source command:

source /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

Verify the installation

To verify that Maven is installed, use the mvn -version command which will print the Maven version:

mvn --version

That's All.

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