In the windows environment you will have .m2 folder in C:\Users\user_name location and you will copy your settings.xml file to it in order to setup your proxy settings and nexus repository locations and etc.
So What I have to done on Ubuntu environment to get similar setup after installing maven on it.
.m2 directory on linux box usually would be $HOME/.m2
you could get the $HOME :
echo $HOME
or simply:
cd <enter>
to go to your home directory.
other information from maven site: http://maven.apache.org/download.html#Installation
Quoted from http://maven.apache.org/settings.html:
There are two locations where a settings.xml file may live:
The Maven install: $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml
A user's install: ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml
So, usually for a specific user you edit
/home/*username*/.m2/settings.xml
To set environment for all local users, you might think about changing the first path.
As per Where is Maven Installed on Ubuntu it will first create your settings.xml on /usr/share/maven2/, then you can copy to your home folder as jens mentioned
$ cp /usr/share/maven3/conf/settings.xml ~/.m2/settings.xml
You can find your maven files here:
cd ~/.m2
Probably you need to copy settings.xml in your .m2
folder:
cp /usr/local/bin/apache-maven-2.2.1/conf/settings.xml .m2/
If no .m2 folder exists:
mkdir -p ~/.m2
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