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Asked: 2010-10-04 14:13:02 +0800 CST

Installing maven on Ubuntu by manual download

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To install Maven, I downloaded the latest version from the website and then followed these steps:

http://maven.apache.org/download.html#Installation

The last step, the version control, does not work. It says that 'mvn' is currently not installed and that I should type sudo apt-get install maven2

If I go directly to the mvn file itself, it does work:

root@ubuntu:~# /usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-2.2.1/bin/mvn --version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 12:16:01-0700)
Java version: 1.6.0_21
Java home: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_21/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.32-25-generic" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"

So, what am I doing wrong here? Or what would and apt-get install do extra that I might have forgotten?

ubuntu-10.04

3 Answers

  1. Add the manually installed maven binary-directory to your PATH-environment

    export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-2.2.1/bin/
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  2. Had a similar issue on 11.10, this is how I solved it:

    1. Install Maven2 from Synaptic rather than downloading it from the website.
    2. gedit ~/.bashrc and check if you have M2_HOME and M2 env variables defined if so DELETE them, delete them from PATH too, if there is a reference to them.
    3. Reload bash and trymvn --version again.
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  3. possibly its not in your path the program mvn?

    or if mvn is referring to a package maybe ubuntu doesn't know about your tar non deb install?

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