Apache Maven is a software project management tool that helps developers to manage and build Java projects. Maven uses project object model (POM) files to manage dependencies, build scripts, and project information in one place. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Maven on OpenBSD.
Before proceeding, make sure that you have the following prerequisites:
Apache Maven requires Java to be installed on your system. You can check if Java is installed on your system by running the following command:
java -version
If you get a command not found error or a message that Java is not installed, you will need to install Java on your system.
To install Java, run the following command:
sudo pkg_add openjdk
The next step is to download the latest version of Apache Maven from the official website. You can download the latest version of Apache Maven using the following command:
sudo ftp https://www.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.8.1/binaries/apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.tar.gz -O /tmp/apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.tar.gz
Once you have downloaded Apache Maven, you need to extract it to a suitable location. You can extract it to the /opt directory using the following command:
sudo tar zxvf /tmp/apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.tar.gz -C /opt
To configure Apache Maven, you need to set the M2_HOME and PATH environment variables. You can do this by adding the following lines to the /etc/profile file:
export M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.8.1
export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin
Once you have added these lines to the /etc/profile file, save and close the file.
To verify that Apache Maven is installed correctly, you can run the following command:
mvn --version
This command should display the version number of Apache Maven, along with information about the Java version and the operating system.
In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Apache Maven on OpenBSD. With Apache Maven installed, you can use it to manage and build Java projects on your OpenBSD system.
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