[SOLVED] Installing Maven 3.0.5 in RedHat Linux

Issue

Can anyone help me installing maven 3.0.5 in linux please?

I tried using wget, yum and tar command. All the commands are saying its not recognized as an external or internal command and now I am blank as to how to achieve it. Do we need to go to start->cmd and apply these commands??

And also please tell me how to set the environment variable. Please help me.

Thanks in advance.

Solution

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"

Answered By - Chetan Potdar