Quick tip: How to install Maven on Linux

Apache Maven is a software project management based on concept of a project object model (POM).

Get Maven from http://maven.apache.org/download.html, unarchive it and add maven binary path to system path.

$ cd /usr/local
$ tar -xzf maven-2.2.1.tar.gz
$ ln -s maven-2.2.1 maven
$export PATH=/usr/local/maven/bin:${PATH}

Now you are ready to run maven commands like

$ mvn assembly:assembly
$ mvn site assembly:assembly
$ mvn install

I’m using Debian Lenny 5.0 and java 1.6.0_16, but should work on every Linux disitribution.