Basic Maven Installation
1- Download latest Maven library from the following URL http://maven.apache.org/download.html. .
2- Unzip the file at some proper location (in my case its C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-2.0.9).
3- Make sure your JAVA_HOME environment variable is set to Java home directory.
4- You need to setup two environment variables for Maven
- M2_HOME
- M2
For Windows:
Go to My Computer > Properties >Advance tab > Environment variables > Under User variables > New and provide both M2_HOME and M2 environment variables. M2_HOME will be upto the home directory where Maven is extracted while M2 will be equal to %M2_HOME%\bin.
For Linux:
Go to your home directory > in the view menu, check “show hidden files”. Open “.bashrc” file in an editor like gedit.
At the end of the file add these three lines
export M2_HOME = Path_To_Maven_Home_Directory
export M2= Path_To_Maven_Bin_Directory
export PATH = $PATH: Path_To_Maven_Bin_Directory
5- You also need to update the PATH environment variable in case of windows in order to access Maven commands from console. Go to My computer > properties > Advance tab > Click Environment Variable Button > under system variables find PATH variable > Click Edit and at the end provide the path up to the bin folder of Maven. In my case it is C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-maven-2.0.9\bin
6- To verify that every thing is setup according to the plan open console and type mvn –version. You should see something similar to the following figure.
See also:
http://maven.apache.org/ , Maven project home page
http://maven.apache.org/download.html, Download and detailed installation instructions.
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/03/01/building-web-applications-with-maven-2.html, introduction to maven commands and building a web application in maven
