Apache Maven is a powerful project management tool that is based on POM (project object model). It is used for projects build, dependency and documentation. It simplifies the build process like ANT. But it is too much advanced than ANT.
In this tutorial we will show you two different ways to install Apache Maven on CentOS 8: Using the dnf package manager or by a source from the official website.
Prerequisites
You’ll need to be logged in as a user with sudo privileges in order to install the Apache Maven.
Method 1./ Installing Apache Maven using dnf
01- The official CentOS repositories contains Maven packages that can be installed with the dnf package manager. Use the below command:
# sudo dnf install maven
02- To verify if Apache Maven is successfully installed just run the mvn -version command:
# mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (Red Hat 3.0.5-17)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 11.0.7, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.7.10-1.el8_1.x86_64
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
Method 2./ Installing Apache Maven From Source
1. Install Java
2. Download Apache Maven
01- First, go to the official Apache Maven download page and use the wget command to download the latest version of Apache Maven.
# wget https://downloads.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.6.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz -P /tmp
02- When the download is completed, extract the archive in the /opt directory like below
# sudo tar -xzvf /tmp/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz -C /opt
03- Next, create a symbolic link maven which will point to the Maven installation directory in our example is apache-maven-3.6.3
# sudo ln -s /opt/apache-maven-3.6.3 /opt/maven
3. Setup environment variables
01- First, we’ll need to setup the environment variables. So, open your text editor and create a new file named maven.sh inside of the /etc/profile.d/ directory.
# sudo vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
export M2_HOME=/opt/maven
export MAVEN_HOME=/opt/maven
export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
02- Finally, load the new environment variables by typing:
# source /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
4. Verify the installation
– To verify that Maven is successfully installed, use the mvn -version command which will print the Apache Maven version:
# mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f)
Maven home: /opt/maven
Java version: 11.0.7, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-11.0.7.10-1.el8_1.x86_64
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.18.0-147.8.1.el8_1.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
Conclusion
You have successfully installed Apache Maven on your CentOS 8 server.
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