Installing Maven 3.0.5 in RedHat Linux

The first thing we need to do is to download the Maven tar file and untar it to a shared location on the workstation

wget http://mirrors.gigenet.com/apache/maven/maven-3/3.0.5/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz
su -c "tar -zxvf apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/" 

Setup the Maven Environment Variables in shared profile. The next step is to setup the Maven environment variables in a shared profile so all users on the system will get them import at login time.

su -c "vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh"

# Add the following lines to maven.sh
export M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.0.5
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
PATH=$M2:$PATH 

Now test your install of Maven. Logout of the system and then log back into it. Enter the following command:

[jsmith@regan ~]$ mvn -version 

If you did everything right your output should look something like the one below:

Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 08:51:28-0500)
Maven home: /opt/apache-maven-3.0.5
Java version: 1.7.0_19, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.19/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-358.2.1.el6.i686", arch: "i386", family: "unix"

The above link will not work,it was corrupted, If you want latest versions please find the below link: wget http://mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz

Steps:

1. Download the file at /opt/Maven/apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz
2. Extract the file in same location tar xvf apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz and Run.
3. Open vi /etc/profile

4. Paste these line:

   export M2_HOME=/opt/Maven/apache-maven-3.0.5

   export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

5. Save the file.

6. Run source /etc/profile
7. Finally Run mvn -version and you will get the maven version

Maven installation done.