Install Maven on CentOS

Maven is open source (written in java) powerful build tool for java development projects. We can automate task such as compile,clean, build, deploy and also dependency management.

In order to install Maven on CentOS, follow the below steps:

1.Download the Maven tar ball

Download the tar in the folder you want to extract to using below command

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wget http://mirror.reverse.net/pub/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.9/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz

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2. Extract the tar ball

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tar xvf apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz

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3. Move Maven to /usr/local directory. This is a optional step.

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sudo mv apache-maven-3.3.9 /usr/local/apache-maven

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4. Edit ~/.bashrc to set env. properties

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# Add below lines to .bashrc

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

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4. Execute below command to set the env. properties

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source ~/.bashrc

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5. Verify Maven is installed

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$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.3.9 (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T08:41:47-08:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven
Java version: 1.8.0_72, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/java/jdk1.8.0_72/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.10.0-327.el7.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

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Please let me know if you face any problem.

Happy Coding!!!!