How to update maven 3.0.4 - 3.1.1

Question

First of all am new to Ubuntu as well as Maven. Does anyone know how to update maven. My current version of maven is 3.0.4. I would like to update it to 3.1.1 which is the latest version. I tried

sudo apt-get update maven

but this didn't help much. Any suggestion. Am using maven for first time. Also how to install

apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

I know there is an command like

sudo apt-get install maven

but it will download maven and then install it.. Since I may need to install maven on a few systems downloading it each time won't be a better option for us. So I am looking forward answer for two questions

1. How to update installed maven

2. How to install downloaded package of maven apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

Solution 1

To upgrade single package in terminal:

sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install maven

To Install downloaded package of maven apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://apache.mirrors.timporter.net/maven/maven-3/3.1.1/binaries/apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/apache-maven
sudo mv apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz /usr/local/apache-maven
cd /usr/local/apache-maven
sudo tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz

Edit ~/.profile with gedit ~/.profile and add these four lines:

export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.1.1
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"
export PATH=$M2:$PATH

don't forget to execute following command to have the update without restarting the machine

 source ~/.profile

Solution 2

On the basis the original question asked about the latest version of Maven this PPA provides a backport from wily to trusty for Maven 3.3.9

https://launchpad.net/~andrei-pozolotin/+archive/ubuntu/maven3

Instructions to use this PPA are copied from the link above.

sudo apt-get purge maven maven2 maven3
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andrei-pozolotin/maven3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install maven3

This worked fine for me on Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS. The installed command was mvn without any need to add a symlink.

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.3.9 (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T16:41:47+00:00)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven3
Java version: 1.8.0_66, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_GB, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.19.0-33-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

Solution 3

There is a PPA for maven with 3.1 at https://launchpad.net/~natecarlson/+archive/maven3

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natecarlson/maven3

The only problem is that the command-line tool from the PPA is maven3, which is going to break any scripts calling mvn.

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/maven3 /usr/bin/mvn

Solution 4

To install mvn3 on Ubuntu 14.04, run:

sudo apt-get purge maven maven2 maven3
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:andrei-pozolotin/maven3
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install maven3

To make a symbolic link, run:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/maven3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn

Reference: https://launchpad.net/~andrei-pozolotin/+archive/ubuntu/maven3

Solution 5

I found this guide worked best for Ubuntu 14.04 to upgrade maven to 3.2.1 http://linuxg.net/how-to-install-apache-maven-3-2-1-on-ubuntu-14-04-linux-mint-17-and-their-derivative-systems/

First, remove the previous mavens of maven, do:

sudo apt-get remove maven*

Install Maven 3:

sudo apt-get install gdebi

wget http://ppa.launchpad.net/natecarlson/maven3/ubuntu/pool/main/m/maven3/maven3_3.2.1-0~ppa1_all.deb

sudo gdebi maven3_3.2.1-0~ppa1_all.deb

Symlink it, for an easier usage:

sudo ln -s /usr/share/maven3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/maven

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Comments

[lemonsqueeze]

Possible duplicate of Gradle in Ubuntu for Launchpad

[lemonsqueeze]

Easiest is probably to use sdkman.

[suja]

is ' sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install maven ' upgrade maven to latest version 3.1.1 coz i tried it and still its 3.0.4

[Mina Eid]

update your package list first with sudo apt-get update

[Mina Eid]

if it doesn't work, try with wget

[david.perez]

This solution looks like good, but doesn't work with recent versions of Ubuntu, like 14.04.

[rofrol]

outdated: latest version on ~natecarlson is 3.2.1, while latest version of maven is 3.2.5

[Stoffe]

There's a PPA for Utopic at: launchpad.net/~vkorenev/+archive/ubuntu/maven3

[Stoffe]

Also, a variation on the linking is to use update-alternatives: sudo update-alternatives --install "/usr/bin/mvn" "mvn" "/usr/share/maven3/bin/mvn" 1 then switch with sudo update-alternatives --config mvn

[ZiglioUK]

W: Failed to fetch ppa.launchpad.net/natecarlson/maven3/ubuntu/dists/utopic/mai‌​n/… 404 Not Found

[David Baucum]

@ZiglioNZ: That PPA only works for Lucid - Precise and is outdated even if you are running one of those versions.

[ZiglioUK]

Thank you, I used ppa.launchpad.net/vkorenev/maven3/ubuntu

[Madhavan]

i tried sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install maven.. as suja's comment says, it does not update my maven to 3.1.1. it is still 3.0.4

[logoff]

it would be much better using the PPA repository as is, not downloading debs to install them manually. see @david-baucum answer: askubuntu.com/questions/420281/…

[Marko Bonaci]

@MadhavanKumar that's because the last version published in apt is 3.0.4. You can always check that with sudo apt-get update to refresh your local cache; then apt-cache search maven and finally apt-cache showpkg <name-of-the-package> to see the current version.

[Kenneth Worden]

Does anyone know if Apache is going to update Maven on the Ubuntu repos? The package they host on the default repos still has bugs and it's been over a year.

[Archimedes Trajano]

The natecarleson/maven3 is out of date and hasn't been updated for 80+ weeks now.

[David Edwards]

It is worth noting that although a PPA might not support an older version of Ubuntu, that doesn't mean the packages won't work. For example, I just downloaded Maven 3.3.9 from launchpad.net/~andrei-pozolotin/+archive/ubuntu/maven3 and installed it on Ubuntu 12.04 using dpkg and it is working just fine.

[Arul]

same way you can download deb for Maven 3.3.9 from ppa.launchpad.net/andrei-pozolotin/maven3/ubuntu/pool/main/m‌​/…

[matanster]

This is probably the more contemporary solution to use. Many thanks.

[user1159819]

The simplest and cleanest solution, no symbolic links to create. Thank you!

[user1159819]

This answer is now dated. The simplest and cleanest solution is the newer answer by Janek Bogucki below.

[Reinier Post]

Always mention your Ubuntu version!! 14.04 still has 3.0.x, 16.04 has 3.3.x (ight now)

[vefthym]

The methodology is NOT outdated, only the maven version. Simply change 3.1.1 to the current version, and it works fine. I successfully did that with maven 3.3.9

[Vasil Valchev]

E: Unable to locate package maven3

[Matt Korostoff]

Great answer, I've been trying to make this work all day, thanks!

[DavidPostill]

Please do not post the same answer to multiple questions. If the same information really answers both questions, then one question (usually the newer one) should be closed as a duplicate of the other. You can indicate this by voting to close it as a duplicate or, if you don't have enough reputation for that, raise a flag to indicate that it's a duplicate. Otherwise tailor your answer to this question and don't just paste the same answer in multiple places.

[TomRed]

@DavidPostill fair enough. But these are the questions that I searched and didn't find a useful answer on that is why I linked them together. Maybe when I build the reps I will do the duplicate but in the mean time I will raise a flag. Thanks for the advise.