Installing Maven 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.04

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

Here are the steps to install Maven 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.04


Download Apache Maven 3.3.3 binary from repository using the following command

wget http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz

Unzip the binary with tar

tar -zxf apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz

Move the application directory to /usr/local

sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.3.3 /usr/local

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

sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn

Verifify mvn installation

mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.3.3 (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"

Install R on Ubuntu 14.04

Update your local repository

sudo apt-get update

sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Check http://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html for the list of CRAN mirrors.

In the end of the file paste the below content

deb http://cran.rstudio.com/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/

If your mirror is different from http://cran.rstudio.com then use
deb <mirror>/bin/linux/ubuntu trusty/
save and close

Update your local repositories with added libraries

sudo apt-get update*

Install R base and dev libraries

sudo apt-get install r-base-dev r-base