Sep 14, 2011

How to install Maven on Ubuntu

1. Search Maven package – apt-cache search
Search the Maven package in Ubuntu with apt command – apt-cache search maven
mkyong@mkyong-desktop:~$ apt-cache search maven ....

maven-ant-helper - helper scripts for building Maven
components with ant

maven2 - Java software project
management and comprehension tool
2. Install it – apt-get install
Install
Maven with command – 
sudo apt-get install
maven2
. Apt will configured Maven for you automatically.
mkyong@mkyong-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install maven2

2 upgraded, 87 newly installed, 0 to remove and 263 not upgraded.

Need to get 97.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 271MB of
additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y

....download many packages, patient

3.Verification
Type “mvn
-version
” to verify your installation.

Maven version:
2.0.9

Java version: 1.6.0_0

OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.28-11-generic" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"

4.Done
If you
see the above message, the Apache Maven is installed successfully.
Where Maven installed?

The Apt-get installation will install all the Maven required files in the
following folder structure

/usr/bin/mvn

/usr/share/maven2/

/etc/maven2
P.S The
Maven configuration is store in /etc/maven2