How To Install Apache Maven on Ubuntu 18.04

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information. This tutorial will help you to install Apache Maven on your Ubuntu 19.10 LTS, 18.04 LTS, and 16.04 LTS systems.

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Step 1 – Prerequisites

First of all, you make sure that you installed appropriate Java on your system.Java is the primary requirement of installing Apache Maven on nix systems. So firstly you need to install Java on your system also make sure you have installed JDK and JRE both.

java -version 

openjdk 11.0.6 2020-01-14
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 11.0.6+10-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu118.04.1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0.6+10-post-Ubuntu-1ubuntu118.04.1, mixed mode, sharing)

If you don’t have Java Development Kit installed on your system. Visit install Java 11 on Ubuntu

Step 2 – Install Maven on Ubuntu

After verifying java version on your system. Download Apache maven from its official website or use following command to download Apache Maven 3.6.3.

cd /usr/local
wget  wget https://www-us.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.8.5/binaries/apache-maven-3.8.5-bin.tar.gz

Now extract downloaded archive using following command.

sudo tar xzf apache-maven-3.8.5-bin.tar.gz
sudo ln -s apache-maven-3.8.5 apache-maven

Step 3 – Setup Environment Variables

As you have downloaded pre compiled Apache Maven files on your system. Now set the environments variables by creating new file /etc/profile.d/maven.sh.

sudo vi /etc/profile.d/apache-maven.sh

and add following content.

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-oracle
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven
export MAVEN_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven
export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

Now load the environment variables in current shell using following command.

source /etc/profile.d/apache-maven.sh

Step 4 – Verify Installation

You have successfully installed and configured Apache Maven on your Ubuntu system. Use the following command to check the version of Maven.

mvn -version

Apache Maven 3.8.5 (3599d3414f046de2324203b78ddcf9b5e4388aa0)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven
Java version: 11.0.2, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-oracle
Default locale: en, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

Finally, remove the downloaded archive file from local.

rm -f apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz

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