Installing Maven 3.2.5 on Ubuntu 14.04

Prerequisite:- JDK 1.5 or above, JAVA_HOME set in environment variable.

Here are the steps to install Maven 3.2.5 on Ubuntu 14.04


Download Apache Maven 3.2.5 binary from repository using the following command

wget http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/maven/maven-3/3.2.5/binaries/apache-maven-3.2.5-bin.tar.gz

Unzip the binary with tar

tar -zxf apache-maven-3.2.5-bin.tar.gz

Move the application directory to /usr/local

sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.2.5 /usr/local

Make a soft link in /usr/bin for universal access of mvn

sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.2.5/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn

Verifify mvn installation

mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.2.5 (12a6b3acb947671f09b81f49094c53f426d8cea1; 2014-12-14T17:29:23+00:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven-3.2.5
Java version: 1.7.0_80, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.13.0-48-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"