How to install maven on redhat linux

Question

Note: When originally posted I was trying to install maven2. Since the main answer is for maven3 I have updated the title. The rest of the question remains as it was origina

Answer 1

Pretty much what others said, but using "~/.bash_profile" and step by step (for beginners):

1. Move to home folder and create a new folder for maven artifacts:
   • cd ~ && mkdir installed-packages
2. Go to https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi and wget the latest artifact:
   • If you don't have wget installed: sudo yum install -y wget
   • cd ~/installed-packages
   • wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.5.0/binaries/apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.tar.gz
3. Uncompress the downloaded file:
   • tar -xvf apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.tar.gz
4. Create a symbolic link of the uncompressed file:
   • ln -s ~/installed-packages/apache-maven-3.5.0 /usr/local/apache-maven
5. Edit ~/.bash_profile (This is where environment variables are commonly stored):
   • vi ~/.bash_profile
   • Add the variable: MVN_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven (do this before PATH variable is defined)
     • (For those who don't know vi tool: Press i key to enable insert mode)
   • Go to the end of the line where PATH variable is defined and append the following: :$MVN_HOME:$MVN_HOME/bin
   • Save changes
     • (For those who don't know vi tool: Press esc key to exit insert mode and :wq! to save and quit file)
6. Reload environment variables:
   • source ~/.bash_profile
7. Confirm that maven command now works properly:
   • mvn --help

Answer 2

I made the following script:

#!/bin/bash

# Target installation location
MAVEN_HOME="/your/path/here"

# Link to binary tar.gz archive
# See https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi?html_a_name#Files
MAVEN_BINARY_TAR_GZ_ARCHIVE="http://www.trieuvan.com/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.9/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz"

# Configuration parameters used to start up the JVM running Maven, i.e. "-Xms256m -Xmx512m"
# See https://maven.apache.org/configure.html
MAVEN_OPTS="" # Optional (not needed)

if [[ ! -d $MAVEN_HOME ]]; then
  # Create nonexistent subdirectories recursively
  mkdir -p $MAVEN_HOME

  # Curl location of tar.gz archive & extract without first directory
  curl -L $MAVEN_BINARY_TAR_GZ_ARCHIVE | tar -xzf - -C $MAVEN_HOME --strip 1

  # Creating a symbolic/soft link to Maven in the primary directory of executable commands on the system
  ln -s $MAVEN_HOME/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn

  # Permanently set environmental variable (if not null)
  if [[ -n $MAVEN_OPTS ]]; then
    echo "export MAVEN_OPTS=$MAVEN_OPTS" >> ~/.bashrc
  fi

  # Using MAVEN_HOME, MVN_HOME, or M2 as your env var is irrelevant, what counts
  # is your $PATH environment.
  # See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26609922/maven-home-mvn-home-or-m2-home
  echo "export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
else
  # Do nothing if target installation directory already exists
  echo "'$MAVEN_HOME' already exists, please uninstall existing maven first."
fi

Answer 3

Go to mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/maven/binaries/ and check what is the latest tar.gz file

Supposing it is e.g. apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz, from the command line; you should be able to simply do:

wget http://mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz

And then proceed to install it.

UPDATE: Adding complete instructions (copied from the comment below)

1. Run command above from the dir you want to extract maven to (e.g. /usr/local/apache-maven)

2. run the following to extract the tar:

   tar xvf apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz
   

3. Next add the env varibles such as

   export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.2.1

   export M2=$M2_HOME/bin

   export PATH=$M2:$PATH

4. Verify

   mvn -version
   

Answer 4

Sometimes you may get "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/classworlds/Launcher" even after setting M2_HOME and PATH parameters correctly.

This exception is because your JDK/Java version need to be updated/installed.

Answer 5

Installing maven in Amazon Linux / redhat

--> sudo wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo

--> sudo sed -i s/\$releasever/6/g /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo

-->sudo yum install -y apache-maven

--> mvn --version

Output looks like

---

Apache Maven 3.5.2 (138edd61fd100ec658bfa2d307c43b76940a5d7d; 2017-10-18T07:58:13Z) Maven home: /usr/share/apache-maven Java version: 1.8.0_171, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.amzn2.x86_64/jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "4.14.47-64.38.amzn2.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

*If its thrown error related to java please follow the below step to update java 8 *

Installing java 8 in amazon linux/redhat

--> yum search java | grep openjdk

--> yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.x86_64

--> yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64

--> update-alternatives --config java #pick java 1.8 and press 1

--> update-alternatives --config javac #pick java 1.8 and press 2

Thank You