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Monday, June 3, 2013

Download and Install latest maven version on Ubuntu

What is Maven?

Maven is a build tool that came out of the Apache development process. It streamlines management of dependencies and build components across different projects. It also avoids duplication of libraries where the same version is used across projects, or allows tracking of different versions of libraries, where different versions may indeed be needed.

Setting up Maven on your machine

First step in setting up Maven on your machine, is entering the command to search for maven in your cache.

$ apt-cache search maven


This produced the following results.


Next step is to install latest version of maven compatible with my OS. This can be done by entering the following command.

$ sudo apt-get install maven


Once the installation is completed, you should see something similar to the following.



We can verify the version that is installed.

$ mvn -version


That's it. Maven is installed!



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