Maven

Manual install

Download last version: http://maven.apache.org/download.html

Required folders

Put it an easy to access folder: /usr/local/DEV/tools/maven

mkdir -p /usr/local/DEV/tools

Local repository

mkdir /usr/local/DEV/m2repo

MAVEN configuration and add local repository Edit: $MAVEN/conf/setting.xml

<!-- Local repository -->
<localRepository>/usr/loca/DEV/m2repo</localRepository>

LINUX configuration

Environment variable

You need to add an environment variable:

vim /etc/profile

Add:

export M2_HOME="/usr/local/DEV/tools/maven"
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export M2_REPO="/usr/local/DEV/m2repo"

if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
   PATH="[...]:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$M2"
else
	   PATH="[...]:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$M2"
fi
export PATH

Ubuntu specifics

Set environment values

vim /etc/environment

Add:

M2_HOME="/usr/local/DEV/tools/maven"
M2="$M2_HOME/bin"
M2_REPO="/usr/local/DEV/m2repo"

Check new values

source /etc/profile

Add exec symlink
<syntaxhighlight lang="bash">
ln -s /usr/local/DEV/tools/maven/bin/mvn  /sbin/mvn

Check configuration

mvn -version