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• Entry #1: Installing Maven 3 on Ubuntu 10.04

  Tue, 01 May 2012:

  Since Ubuntu 10.04 has only maven2 in the apt-get repositories, maven 3 must be downloaded, extracted and added to the $PATH environment variable.

  First, download the the binaries from the maven download page. I would give the download link, but they ask that you download from the nearest mirror (I'm in Hong Kong, and downloaded binaries for Maven 3.0.4) . So, copy the download link for your nearest mirror and then use:

  wget http://link/to/download/maven_binaries.tar.gz

  unzip them,

  tar xzf maven_binaries.tar.gz

  move the files to /usr/local (the recommended place to place non-package managed linux installs)

  sudo cp maven_binaries /usr/local/apache-maven

  then add some evirontment variables to /etc/environment:

  JAVA_HOME="/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk"
  M3_HOME="/usr/local/apache-maven"
  MAVEN_HOME="/usr/local/apache-maven"
  M3="/usr/local/apache-maven/bin"

  append the maven binaries to $PATH by changing your PATH from :

  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"

  to:

  PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/apache-maven/bin/"

  
  afterwards, run the following to test:

  mvn --version
  

  you should get something like:

  Apache Maven 3.0.4 (r1232337; 2012-01-17 16:44:56+0800)
  Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven
  Java version: 1.6.0_20, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
  Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre
  Default locale: en_HK, platform encoding: UTF-8
  OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.32-40-generic-pae", arch: "i386", family: "unix"