Sunday, August 25, 2013

Install Maven on Ubuntu

Install Maven on Ubuntu
What is Maven?

Maven is a project management and comprehension tool.
Developer point of view Maven provides for developers a complete build lifecycle framework.

Maven provides developers ways to manage following:
* Builds
* Documentation
* Reporting
* Dependencies
* Releases
* Distribution
* mailing list

Install Maven
331 sudo apt-get update
332 sudo apt-get install maven

Verification
$ mvn -version
Once run the above command, you will get the below out put
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Apache Maven 3.0.4
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.5.0_22, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/j2sdk1.5-sun/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.5.0-23-generic", arch: "i386", family: "unix"

You can see as per the above out put Maven home is on “/use/share/maven”.

Run the below list commands and check the out puts.
$ls -ls /usr/share/maven
$ls -ls /etc/maven