I\'m working on a Scientific Linux box and am trying to install Maven using the yum
command. Scientific Linux for those of you who do not know is based off of Red H
This is more updated way:
curl http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage50.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage.repo
yum update
yum install maven2
Thanks Andy for his answer (on Jun 10, 2011). It gave me some hints. However, when I followed it, I got a lot of dependencies issues, including problems like these
ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve:
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by plexus-container-default-1.0-0.a9s1.2.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by aspectj-1.5.4-1.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by rhino-1.7-1.r2.8.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by saxon9-dom-B.9.0.0.8-2.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by easymock2-2.5.2-2.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by saxon9-B.9.0.0.8-2.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by saxon9-xpath-B.9.0.0.8-2.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by xmlbeans-2.4.0-3.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by jtidy-7.0-0.V04aug2000r7_dev.2.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by lucene-2.4.1-5.jpp6.noarch
rpmlib(FileDigests) is needed by aqute-bndlib-0.0.363-1.jpp6.noarch
Finally I realized the JPackage website actually has good and updated instruction. So I following these two pages and could finally installed maven2 on my machine.
Jpackage.org: Installation
Jpackage.org: Using a Repository -- Yum
I had all kinds of conflicts trying to use the JPackage repo with Scientific Linux 6.2, but I had much better luck with dchen's repo from the "Fedora People" unofficial repositories. The repo config I used is:
# Note: Replaced $releasever with 6Server since SL's "6.2" doesn't work
[epel-apache-maven]
name=maven from apache foundation.
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-6Server/$basearch/
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0
[epel-apache-maven-source]
name=maven from apache foundation. - Source
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-6Server/SRPMS
enabled=0
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0
The package itself is called apache-maven
and installs maven 3.0.3.
The distro agnostic generic repo is what you want. As root, add a couple of the jpackage-generic repos to yum (two snippets below). Then perform a yum update and finally yum install maven2.
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic-free.repo << EOF
[jpackage-generic-free]
name=JPackage generic free
baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
EOF
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic-devel.repo << EOF
[jpackage-generic-devel]
name=JPackage Generic Developer
baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/devel/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
EOF