How to install Maven on Ubuntu

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Apache Maven on Ubuntu.

Tested with

1. Maven 3.5.2
2. Ubuntu 18.04

Note

Before the Maven installation, make sure JDK is installed and JAVA_HOME is configured.

1. Search Maven

Review the Maven package version in the local repository.

$ sudo apt policy maven

maven:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.5.2-2
  Version table:
     3.5.2-2 500
        500 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://my.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages

It is Maven 3.5.2.

2. Install Maven

Install the Maven via apt command.

$ sudo apt install maven

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libaopalliance-java libapache-pom-java libatinject-
  
//...

Setting up libsisu-inject-java (0.3.2-2) ...
Setting up libsisu-plexus-java (0.3.3-3) ...
Setting up libmaven3-core-java (3.5.2-2) ...
Setting up maven (3.5.2-2) ...
update-alternatives: using /usr/share/maven/bin/mvn to provide /usr/bin/mvn (mvn) in auto mode

3. Verification

Apache Maven 3.5.2 is installed successfully.

$ mvn -version

Apache Maven 3.5.2
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 11.0.1, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-oracle
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.15.0-38-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

4. Where is Maven?

The apt command installed Maven in the following location :

$ ls -lsa /usr/share/maven
total 32
 4 drwxr-xr-x   6 root root  4096 Nov   9 17:34 .
12 drwxr-xr-x 227 root root 12288 Nov   9 17:34 ..
 4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov   9 17:34 bin
 4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov   9 17:34 boot
 0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    10 Feb  24  2018 conf -> /etc/maven
 4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov   9 17:34 lib
 4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov   9 17:34 man

$ ls -lsa /etc/maven
total 40
 4 drwxr-xr-x   3 root root  4096 Nov   9 17:34 .
12 drwxr-xr-x 127 root root 12288 Nov   9 17:34 ..
 4 drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Nov   9 17:34 logging
 4 -rw-r--r--   1 root root   220 Okt  18  2017 m2.conf
12 -rw-r--r--   1 root root 10211 Okt  18  2017 settings.xml
 4 -rw-r--r--   1 root root  3645 Okt  18  2017 toolchains.xml

References

1. How to install Java JDK on Ubuntu