Maven installation and configuration for Ubuntu

Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:17

This document describes how to install Maven on Ubuntu

Requirement

Installation

Installation of Maven on ubuntu can be pretty straightforward

$ sudo apt-get install maven2

Files should be installed in /usr/share/maven2

Verification

Type �mvn -version � to verify the installation.

 
$ mvn -version 
 Maven version: 2.0.9 
 Java version: 1.6.0_0  
 OS name: "linux" 
 version: "2.6.28-11-generic" 
 arch: "i386"
 Family: "unix" 

Where the Maven installed?

The Apt-get installation will install all the required files in the following folder structure

/usr/bin/mvn 
/usr/share/maven2/
/etc/maven2 

P.S The Maven configuration is store in /etc/maven2

Configuring Maven to use Nexus (Optional)

Nexus is a maven repository manager. You can use Nexus to host your own maven repository for artifact created in your company, or for caching external artifacts.

If you don't have a nexus server in your organisation you can skip this section.

To use Nexus, you will configure Maven to check Nexus instead of the public repositories. To do this, you'll need to edit your settings.xml file.

<settings></em>

<em> ...</em>

<em> </em>
  <mirrors>
    <mirror>
      <!--This sends everything else to /public -->
      <id>nexus</id>
      <mirrorOf>*</mirrorOf>
      <url>http://your_nexus_host:nexu_port/nexus/content/groups/public</url>
    </mirror>
  </mirrors>
 ...
<settings>

<settings>
  ... 
  <profiles>
    <profile>
      <id>nexus</id>
      <!--Enable snapshots for the built in central repo to direct -->
      <!--all requests to nexus via the mirror -->
      <repositories>
        <repository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://central</url>
          <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
          <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
        </repository>
      </repositories>
     <pluginRepositories>
        <pluginRepository>
          <id>central</id>
          <url>http://central</url>
          <releases><enabled>true</enabled></releases>
          <snapshots><enabled>true</enabled></snapshots>
        </pluginRepository>
      </pluginRepositories>
    </profile>
  </profiles>

  <activeProfiles>
    <activeProfile>nexus</activeProfile>
  </activeProfiles>
  ...
<settings>