Installing Apache Maven
The installation of Apache Maven is a simple process of extracting the archive
and adding the bin
directory with the mvn
command to the PATH
.
Detailed steps are:
-
Have a JDK installation on your system. Either set the
JAVA_HOME
environment variable pointing to your JDK installation or have thejava
executable on yourPATH
. -
Extract distribution archive in any directory
unzip apache-maven-3.9.9-bin.zip
or
tar xzvf apache-maven-3.9.9-bin.tar.gz
Alternatively use your preferred archive extraction tool.
-
Add the
bin
directory of the created directoryapache-maven-3.9.9
to thePATH
environment variable -
Confirm with
mvn -v
in a new shell. The result should look similar to
Apache Maven 3.9.9 (8e8579a9e76f7d015ee5ec7bfcdc97d260186937)
Maven home: /opt/apache-maven-3.9.9
Java version: 1.8.0_45, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.8.5", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"