How to install Maven 3 on Ubuntu 18.04/17.04/16.10/16.04 LTS/15.10/15.04/14.10/14.04 LTS/13.10/13.04 by using apt-get? [closed]
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Try:
sudo apt-get install maven
If it works for you ignore the rest of this post.
Intro
I started setting up my Ubuntu 12.10 on April 2013 and the normal sudo apt-get install maven was not working for maven 3 back then.
The manual installation in this post is useful if you like to dig in deeper to your ubuntu kernel in regards with apt-get and where it finds the list of applications that are available for installation on Ubuntu . It can also be potentially useful for more recent releases of Ubuntu like Ubuntu 15.04, etc. if you face the same problem as I did back then with Ubuntu 12.10.
Automatic Installation via apt-get:
Checkout the manual installation if your current ubuntu can not install maven via common 'apt-get install maven'.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install maven
Make sure to remove maven 2 if your ubuntu is not fresh or if you were using maven 2 before:
sudo apt-get remove maven2
Manual Installation via apt-get by adding maven 3 repository (Ubuntu 14.04 check out update 1):
This can be useful if your ubuntu apt-get repositories list is not up to date.
Maven 3 was required to set up the system and as it turns out most of the documents out there are referring to how to install Maven to Ubuntu version 12.04 or before. Best document I found was:
The whole process I came up with is as follows:
sudo -H gedit /etc/apt/sources.list Add the following line the sources.list file: deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/natecarlson/maven3/ubuntu precise main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/natecarlson/maven3/ubuntu precise main sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install maven3 sudo ln -s /usr/share/maven3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
Caution 1: command "sudo apt-add-repository ppa:natecarlson/maven3" did not work on my Ubuntu and had to run sudo apt-add-repository -rm ppa:natecarlson/maven3 to get my apt-get to work again. Caution 2: thanks to David, you need to remove your existing symbolic link to previous versions of maven before running step 4.
OS X Installation
I decided to add OS X installation in case you use multiple environments for your dev: See the source stackoverflow thread for more details.
Install Homebrew that is the equavalent of apt-get, then install Maven using:
brew install maven
Update 1: Installation for Ubunutu 14.04
Haven't tried this myself but I am confident this should work without security warnings:
sudo apt-get purge maven maven2 maven3
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:andrei-pozolotin/maven3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install maven3
Note: source here, many thanks and +1s to @rendybjunior, @Dominic_Bartl, and @FunThomas424242
It's best to use miske's answer.
Properly installing natecarlson's repository
If you really want to use natecarlson's repository, the instructions just below can do any of the following:
set it up from scratch repair it if apt-get update gives a 404 error after add-apt-repository repair it if apt-get update gives a NO_PUBKEY error after manually adding it to /etc/apt/sources.list
Open a terminal and run the following:
sudo -i
Enter your password if necessary, then paste the following into the terminal:
export GOOD_RELEASE='precise'
export BAD_RELEASE="`lsb_release -cs`"
cd /etc/apt
sed -i '/natecarlson\/maven3/d' sources.list
cd sources.list.d
rm -f natecarlson-maven3-*.list*
apt-add-repository -y ppa:natecarlson/maven3
mv natecarlson-maven3-${BAD_RELEASE}.list natecarlson-maven3-${GOOD_RELEASE}.list
sed -i "s/${BAD_RELEASE}/${GOOD_RELEASE}/" natecarlson-maven3-${GOOD_RELEASE}.list
apt-get update
exit
echo Done!
Removing natecarlson's repository
If you installed natecarlson's repository (either using add-apt-repository or manually added to /etc/apt/sources.list) and you don't want it anymore, open a terminal and run the following:
sudo -i
Enter your password if necessary, then paste the following into the terminal:
cd /etc/apt
sed -i '/natecarlson\/maven3/d' sources.list
cd sources.list.d
rm -f natecarlson-maven3-*.list*
apt-get update
exit
echo Done!
echo Done! before you exit. +1 nonetheless :)
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sudo apt-get remove maven2; just installing Maven 3 withsudo apt-get install mavendoesn't necessarily make it the default version of Maven.sudo update-alternatives --config mvn