Apache Maven is a software project management tool that can manage a project's build, reporting, and documentation from a central piece of information. In this tutorial, we will learn how to install Apache Maven on POP! OS.
Before starting this tutorial, you need the following:
The first step is to download the latest version of Apache Maven from the Apache Maven website.
We will download the latest version by running the following command in the terminal:
wget https://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/apache/maven/maven-3/3.8.1/binaries/apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.tar.gz
This command will download the Apache Maven binaries to your system. If a newer version of Maven is available, replace the version number accordingly.
After the download is complete, navigate to the directory where the file was downloaded using the cd command.
cd ~/Downloads/
Now, extract the archive using the following command:
sudo tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.tar.gz -C /opt/
In this command, we are extracting the archive to the /opt directory using the -C option.
In this step, we will configure the environment variables for Apache Maven.
Open the .bashrc file in your home directory using the following command:
nano ~/.bashrc
Add the following configuration at the end of the file:
export M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.8.1
export MAVEN_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.8.1
export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
Save and close the .bashrc file using Ctrl + X, Y, and Enter keys.
In order to load the environment variables we set up, we will need to restart the terminal.
Simply close and reopen the terminal or run the following command:
source ~/.bashrc
We can now verify the installation of Apache Maven by running the following command:
mvn -version
If the output shows the version of Apache Maven that you installed, then it means Maven is installed correctly.
Apache Maven 3.8.1
Maven home: /opt/apache-maven-3.8.1
Java version: 11.0.12, Vendor: Ubuntu, Runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "5.11.0-34-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
In this tutorial, we learned how to install Apache Maven on POP! OS. Now you are ready to use Apache Maven on your system.
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