Note: When originally posted I was trying to install maven2. Since the main answer is for maven3 I have updated the title. The rest of the question remains as it was originally posted.
I'm trying to install maven2 on a redhat linux box using the command
yum install maven2
but yum doesn't seem to be able to find maven2.
No package maven2 available
I've run across other posts about this topic, but the answer to the following post suggests to add repos. I add said repos, but run into errors after adding them.
How to install Maven into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?
I can only access this box via command line so simply downloading maven from their website is difficult for me.
Go to mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/maven/binaries/ and check what is the latest tar.gz file
Supposing it is e.g. apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz, from the command line; you should be able to simply do:
wget http://mirror.olnevhost.net/pub/apache/maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz
And then proceed to install it.
UPDATE: Adding complete instructions (copied from the comment below)
run the following to extract the tar:
tar xvf apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz
Next add the env varibles such as
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.2.1
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export PATH=$M2:$PATH
Verify
mvn -version
Pretty much what others said, but using "~/.bash_profile" and step by step (for beginners):
cd ~ && mkdir installed-packages
sudo yum install -y wget
cd ~/installed-packages
wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.5.0/binaries/apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.tar.gz
tar -xvf apache-maven-3.5.0-bin.tar.gz
ln -s ~/installed-packages/apache-maven-3.5.0 /usr/local/apache-maven
~/.bash_profile
(This is where environment variables are commonly stored):
vi ~/.bash_profile
MVN_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven
(do this before PATH variable is defined)
vi
tool: Press i
key to enable insert mode):$MVN_HOME:$MVN_HOME/bin
vi
tool: Press esc
key to exit insert mode and :wq!
to save and quit file)source ~/.bash_profile
mvn --help
Installing maven in Amazon Linux / redhat
--> sudo wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
--> sudo sed -i s/\$releasever/6/g /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
-->sudo yum install -y apache-maven
--> mvn --version
Output looks like
Apache Maven 3.5.2 (138edd61fd100ec658bfa2d307c43b76940a5d7d; 2017-10-18T07:58:13Z) Maven home: /usr/share/apache-maven Java version: 1.8.0_171, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.171-8.b10.amzn2.x86_64/jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux", version: "4.14.47-64.38.amzn2.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
*If its thrown error related to java please follow the below step to update java 8 *
Installing java 8 in amazon linux/redhat
--> yum search java | grep openjdk
--> yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless.x86_64
--> yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel.x86_64
--> update-alternatives --config java #pick java 1.8
and press 1
--> update-alternatives --config javac #pick java 1.8
and press 2
Thank You
Sometimes you may get "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/classworlds/Launcher" even after setting M2_HOME and PATH parameters correctly.
This exception is because your JDK/Java version need to be updated/installed.
I made the following script:
#!/bin/bash
# Target installation location
MAVEN_HOME="/your/path/here"
# Link to binary tar.gz archive
# See https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi?html_a_name#Files
MAVEN_BINARY_TAR_GZ_ARCHIVE="http://www.trieuvan.com/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.9/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz"
# Configuration parameters used to start up the JVM running Maven, i.e. "-Xms256m -Xmx512m"
# See https://maven.apache.org/configure.html
MAVEN_OPTS="" # Optional (not needed)
if [[ ! -d $MAVEN_HOME ]]; then
# Create nonexistent subdirectories recursively
mkdir -p $MAVEN_HOME
# Curl location of tar.gz archive & extract without first directory
curl -L $MAVEN_BINARY_TAR_GZ_ARCHIVE | tar -xzf - -C $MAVEN_HOME --strip 1
# Creating a symbolic/soft link to Maven in the primary directory of executable commands on the system
ln -s $MAVEN_HOME/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
# Permanently set environmental variable (if not null)
if [[ -n $MAVEN_OPTS ]]; then
echo "export MAVEN_OPTS=$MAVEN_OPTS" >> ~/.bashrc
fi
# Using MAVEN_HOME, MVN_HOME, or M2 as your env var is irrelevant, what counts
# is your $PATH environment.
# See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26609922/maven-home-mvn-home-or-m2-home
echo "export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
else
# Do nothing if target installation directory already exists
echo "'$MAVEN_HOME' already exists, please uninstall existing maven first."
fi
Source: Stackoverflow.com