Apache Maven is free and open source java based software for project management and comprehension tool. Maven allows users to easily store documents, generate reports and documentation from a central piece of information. In this tutorial we will guide you through the steps of installing Apache Maven 3.5 on CentOS 7.
Listed below are some of the key features of Apache Maven:
– Simple project setup that follows best practices
– Superior dependency management
– Extensible with a lot of plugins written in Java or other scripting languages
– Model based builds
– Release management and distribution publication:
and in the latest Maven 3.5 version, there are lots of bug fixes and important changes such as:
– ANSI colors added to the console
– Fixed several bugs in MVN scripts regarding spaces, quotations and special characters.
– Switch from Eclipse Aether to Maven Artifact Resolver
– and much more
Update the system
To start with the Maven installation, log in to your CentOS 7 server via SSH as user root
ssh [email protected]_adress -p port_number
and perform a full system update by typing the following command
yum -y update
Install Java 8
Since Maven is Java based application we have to install Java on the server. Java version 1.7 or newer is required. We will install Java 8
yum install -y java-1.8.0-openjdk-devel
This command will install Java 8 and all necessary dependencies.
Once installed, run the following command the check the installed version
java -version openjdk version "1.8.0_161" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_161-b14) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.161-b14, mixed mode)
Install and configure Maven 3.5
Apache Maven’s installation is a simple process. Go to their official website and download the arhive of the desired version. In this tutorial we will install Apache Maven version 3.5.3
wget http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/maven/maven-3/3.5.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip
Unpack the downloaded zip archive
yum -y install unzip cd /opt unzip apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip
Rename the newly created directory and remove the downloaded archive
mv apache-maven-3.5.3 maven rm -f apache-maven-3.5.3-bin.zip
We downloaded the precompiled version of Apache Maven, so we have to set the environment variables. Create the following file
nano /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
export PATH=/opt/maven/bin:${PATH}
Save the file and load the environment variables in the current shell.
With this step Apache Maven should be successfully installed and configured on your CentOS 7 VPS. Run the following command to confirm
mvn -version
and you should get the following output
Apache Maven 3.5.3 (3383c37e1f9e9b3bc3df5050c29c8aff9f295297; 2018-02-24T13:49:05-06:00) Maven home: /opt/maven Java version: 1.8.0_161, vendor: Oracle Corporation Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.161-0.b14.el7_4.x86_64/jre Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: UTF-8
Install Apache Maven from a repository
Apache Maven can be also installed by adding its repository to the server. Please note that this will not install the latest available version Download its official repository
wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-apache-maven.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo sed -i s/$releasever/6/g /etc/yum.repos.d/epel-apache-maven.repo
and install Maven with the yum package manager
yum install -y apache-maven
and check the installed version
mvn -v