How to Install Maven?

How to Install Maven?

Prerequisite

• Install Java JDK 1.5 or above How to setup java

Steps to Install Maven

1) Download Maven from link and unzip it at your preferred location.

• apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.zip for Windows
• apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.tar.gz for Linux
• apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.tar.gz for Mac

2) Now you need to set Maven environment variables

Add MAVEN_HOME, MAVEN, MAVEN_OPTS to environment variables.

• For Windows, set the above environment variables.
  MAVEN_HOME=MAVEN unzip directory path\apache-maven-3.5.0MAVEN=%MAVEN_HOME%\binMAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512mAppend the string ;%MAVEN% to the end of the system variable, Path.

• For Linux, open command terminal and set the above environment variables.
  export MAVEN_HOME=MAVEN unzip directory path\apache-maven-3.5.0export MAVEN=%MAVEN_HOME%\binexport MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512mexport PATH=$MAVEN:$PATH

• For Mac, open command terminal and set the above environment variables.
export MAVEN_HOME=MAVEN unzip directory path\apache-maven-3.5.0
export MAVEN=%MAVEN_HOME%\bin
export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512m


export PATH=$MAVEN:$PATH

3) Verify Maven installation

• For Windows, open command console and type "mvn --version". If you've done the setup correctly, this command will provide you the version of installed Maven. 
• For Linux, open command terminal and type "mvn --version". If you've done the setup correctly, this command will provide you the version of installed Maven.
• For Mac, open terminal and type "mvn --version". If you've done the setup correctly, this command will provide you the version of installed Maven.

Congratulations! you have successfully done the Apache Maven setup for all your projects.