How to Install Apache Maven on CentOS 7

How to Install Apache Maven on CentOS 7

Apache Maven is a free and open-source project management and comprehension tool used primarily for Java projects. Maven uses a Project Object Model (POM), which is essentially an XML file containing information about the project, configuration details, the projects dependencies, and so on.

In this tutorial, we will take you through two different ways to install Apache Maven on CentOS 7.

The official CentOS 7 repositories contain Maven packages that can be installed with the "yum" package manager. This is the easiest way to install Maven on CentOS 7. but it may not be the latest maven repository available. To install the latest version of Maven  we will be downloading Maven from their official website.

Choose the installation method that is suits you.

With YUM:

Installing Maven on CentOS 7 using yum is a simple.

Install Maven by typing the following command in your terminal:

yum install maven -y

Verify the installation by typing the "mvn -version" command:

mvn -version

The output will look something like this:

[root@dockerserver ~]# mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.5.2 (138edd61fd100ec658bfa2d307c43b76940a5d7d; 2017-10-18T07:58:13Z)
Maven home: /opt/maven
Java version: 1.8.0_242, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.242.b08-0.el7_7.x86_64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.10.0-1062.12.1.el7.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
[root@dockerserver  ~]#

That’s it. Maven is now installed.

Install the Latest  of Apache Maven

The following sections provide a step by step instructions about how to install the latest Apache Maven version on CentOS 7. We’ll be downloading the latest release of Apache Maven from their official website.

1. Install OpenJDK
Maven 3.3+ requires JDK 1.7 or above to be installed. We’ll install OpenJDK, which is the default Java development and runtime in CentOS 7.

yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk -y

Verify that Java was successfully installed :

[root@dockerserver  ~]# java -version
openjdk version "1.8.0_242"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_242-b08)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.242-b08, mixed mode)
[root@dockerserver  ~]#

2. Download Apache Maven


Download latest Maven:

wget https://www-us.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.6.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.tar.gz -P /tmp

Once the download is completed, extract the archive in the /opt directory:

root@dockerserver :/# tar xf /tmp/apache-maven-*.tar.gz -C /opt

root@dockerserver :/# ln -s /opt/apache-maven-3.6.3 /opt/maven

Later if you want to upgrade your Maven installation you can simply unpack the newer version and change the symlink to point to the latest version.


3. Setup environment variables

update your profile file with following details:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java
export M2_HOME=/opt/maven
export MAVEN_HOME=/opt/maven
export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

Reload the environment variables :

source /etc/profile

4. Verify the installation

To validate that Maven is installed properly use following command

mvn -version

You should see something like the following:

Apache Maven 3.6.3
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.8.0_192, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /opt/openjdk
Default locale: en, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

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