Installing Maven 3 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server.
In preparing to upgrade a customer’s software recently I discovered there were issues with Maven version 2, so I also had to upgrade to Maven version 3.
Not a whole of information available about configuration, here’s what worked for me.
Download Maven 3.
$ cd /home/myusername
$ wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/www.apache.org/dist//maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.2-bin.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.0.2-bin.tar.gz …. unpacks Maven
$ sudo mkdir /usr/local/apache-maven … creates a maven sub-folder in the usr/local/ folder
$ sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.0.2 /usr/local/apache-maven/ …. copies extraced Maven files to the new sub-folder.
Add the Maven 3 PATH variables to the environment file.
$ sudo nano /etc/environment … to edit the environment file.
Two changes required:
Firstly add the following lines.
JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk”
M2_HOME=”/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.2″
MAVEN_HOME=”/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.2″
M2=”/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.2/bin”
Secondly change the top line for PATH. It should look like this:
PATH=”/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games”
Modify it to look like this:
PATH=”/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.2/bin”
Testing the Installation:
Logout:
$ logout
Log back in:
Run the Maven version checker:
$ mvn –version
It should return something like
Note – Do not proceed until a Maven 3 version and Java Version are being returned.
Create the Maven home folder (Did this anyway, not sure if necessary but hasn’t caused any issues).
$ mkdir /home/myusername/.m2
$ chown myserver.myusername -R /home/myusername/.m2 … grants the myusername user full rights to the Maven folder
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Paranormal said
it worked perfect thank you very much
YOMorales said
Hi:
Did exactly this (in Ubuntu) and got an error at the end. Something about: “Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/classworlds/launcher/Launcher”.
After googling a bit, I found out something about changing the number 2 for 3 in the path variables, like:
M3_HOME
M3
.. and everything is now working perfect.
lukieb said
The 3.0.2 Maven version I downloaded above seems to be no longer available from my ftp mirror. Try this instead $wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/www.apache.org/dist//maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz
lukieb
Andrey said
You can just get the nearest mirror by going to apache web site:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.2-bin.tar.gz
Jigs said
After following those steps I am getting only this message.
The program ‘mvn’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install maven2
my $PATH,$M2 and $M2_HOME all variables are good.
NOT sure why am I getting this.
Cris said
Have the same thing…
Any idea how can this be resolved…?
Thanks
venktesh said
Same for me even. I don’t think anywhere we did anything to install it.. Plz help..
Andrey said
Cris,
Did you install jdk? Can you please confirm by running
$java -version
I just installed mvn following the instructions, all works fine. Make sure there are no typos.
Ajit Wadekar said
Hi ,
we need to set M3_HOME instead of M2_HOME if we set M2_HOME it gives error of class loader
bakeha said
Yep when I use M3 instead of M2 it works like a charm. Cheers
Gagan said
refer this link : http://www.discursive.com/blog/4636
lukieb said
thanks Gagan, nice one
Gayle Randecker said
Did exactly this (in Ubuntu) and got an error at the end. Something about: “Exception in thread “main” java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/classworlds/launcher/Launcher”.
+1
Sebastiaan said
fix the text,.. need to say M3 in environment.
marcosl_sl said
After following those steps I am getting:
marcos@linux1:/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 2.2.1 (rdebian-1)
Java version: 1.6.0_20
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre
Default locale: es_AR, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: “linux” version: “2.6.31-23-generic” arch: “amd64” Family: “unix”
and the /etc/enviroment has:
PATH=”/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3/bin”
JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk”
M3_HOME=”/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3″
MAVEN_HOME=”/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3″
M3=”/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3/bin”
I can’t install maven 3
marcosl_sl said
uninstall maven2 and resolve the problem
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Eric Binard said
To work I’ve not to add the java_home, but instead type this command in terminal: export JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0″.
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Mieky S Yudinata (@thickkoezz) said
after modifying the /etc/environment file, I must restart my ubuntu and maven 3 got succesfully installed.
the command mvn -version returns this message:
Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-03-01 00:31:09+0700)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.0.3
Java version: 1.7.0, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: “linux”, version: “2.6.38-11-generic”, arch: “i386”, family: “unix”
nice tutorial. thank you.
asd said
use the command
source /etc/environment
to get the path updates without the restart of ubuntu
chrisspen said
Your setup didn’t work for me using JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk”, which gave me the error:
Error: JAVA_HOME is not defined correctly.
We cannot execute ”/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk”/bin/java
However, when I replaced this with JAVA_HOME=”/usr/lib/jvm/default-java” everything worked correctly.
Vytautas said
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Rini said
Thank you sooo much
Jeff said
Thanks this helped a lot.
Tom Vaughan said
Here’s what I did on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine to convert my user’s environment from maven2 to maven3:
#> cd /tmp
#> wget http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/www.apache.org/dist//maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz
#> cd /usr/local
#> sudo tar xvfz /tmp/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz
Then I stuck this at the bottom of my .bashrc to put the new maven path ahead of the existing maven path (I haven’t uninstalled Maven 2 at this point…just testing it out) and setup the environment variables to be maven 3 instead of 2.
# Switching from maven2 to maven3
export M3_HOME=”/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3″
export MAVEN_HOME=”/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3″
export M3=”/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3/bin”
export PATH=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3/bin:$PATH
unset M2_HOME
Checked that maven was totally switched over:
tvaughan:~ $ mvn –version
Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 12:31:09-0500)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven-3.0.3
Java version: 1.6.0_26, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.26/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: “linux”, version: “2.6.35-31-generic”, arch: “amd64”, family: “unix”
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Kanth Raj said
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manwann said
Hi, i was working with maven 2 and all fine, but i comitted a project that needs maven 3, so i am interested in installing two instances of maven with ubuntu (v2 and v3).
i am worry because i don’t know if will be any conflict between two versions.
any help would be appreciated
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it appears that /usr/bin/mvn is a hardlink with /usr/share/maven2/bin/mvn on my system. I had to unlink it first and made some adjustments to get both maven 2 and 3. note, that I did not set any path variables.
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$ unlink /usr/share/maven2/bin/mvnDebug; mv /usr/bin/mvnDebug /usr/share/maven2/bin/mvnDebug
$ tar xzf apache-maven-3.0.4.tar.gz ; mv apache-maven-3.0.4
$ update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/mvn mvn /usr/share/maven2/bin/mvn 2
$ update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/mvnDebug mvnDebug /usr/share/maven2/bin/mvnDebug 2
/usr/share/maven3
$ update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/mvn mvn /usr/share/maven3/bin/mvn 3
$ update-alternatives –install /usr/bin/mvnDebug mvnDebug /usr/share/maven3/bin/mvnDebug 3
switch between mvn versions (and mvnDebug respectively):
$ update-alternatives –config mvn
$ update-alternatives –config mvnDebug
John G said
Thank you. I was able to install just fine even when I updated the version number to 3.0.4. Just replace 3.0.2 -> 3.0.4 after downloading the latest version.
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