Install Maven from archive

Why Maven ?

Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

•     Quick project set-up, no complicated build.xml files, just a POM and go
•     All developers in a project use the same jar dependencies due to centralized POM.
•     Getting a number of reports and metrics for a project "for free"
•     Reduce the size of source distributions, because jars can be pulled from a central location

Make sure you installed Java and exported JAVA_HOME in your PATH variable.

Verify java installation on your machine

$java -version 
$javac -version

Download maven

Extract Maven archive

$sudo cp ~/Downloads/apache-maven-*.tar.gz /usr/local/
$sudo su -
$cd /usr/local
$tar -xzf apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

Set maven environment variables (vi ~/.bashrc or /etc/profiles)

export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven-x.x.x
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"

Add maven bin directory to system path

export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

Verify Maven installed

$mvn -version

References : Maven