Well, all new Mac machines loaded with Lion and above, come pre-installed with Maven. In order to find out which version is installed on your machine by default, just type the following in terminal :
mvn -version
![Apache Apache](/uploads/1/3/3/2/133275897/359710217.jpg)
However you if want to upgrade the version or configure the Maven Home to a different location, perform the following steps :
How To Download Apache Maven On Terminal Mac Mojave
- The Maven installation is essentially a set of JAR files, configuration files, and a Mac OS X shell script, namely mvn. The mvn command essentially runs this script. It first checks for JAVAHOME.This file is present in the bin folder of the Maven installation and, hence, it needs to be in PATH. If the shell script does not find JAVAHOME, it looks for Java in its PATH.
- Mar 21, 2020 Learn about how to install maven on Mac OSX. As you can see, maven is successfully installed on your machine. You can go ahead and create maven based project now.
- To install maven on macOS follow the next steps. This should work for any version of macOS and maven. To check first if there is any version installed, run the command.
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mvn -version
How To Download Apache Maven On Terminal Mac Osx
Mine came pre-loaded with v3.0.3 and the default Maven Home was set at /usr/share/maven![Apache Apache](/uploads/1/3/3/2/133275897/359710217.jpg)
However you if want to upgrade the version or configure the Maven Home to a different location, perform the following steps :
- Download the latest Apache Maven distribution from it's official download link. Presently it is v3.2.1, so download the relevant binary ( apache-maven-3.2.1-bin.tar.gz ).
- After downloading, unzip it and copy the entire folder to some other directory. Let's say for instance - /usr/lib/apache-maven-3.2.1
- We now need to a couple of environment variables to our bash profile. In terminal, type vi ~/.bash_profile and insert the following variables to it ( i for insert ).
- Now lets add the environment variable M2_HOME so type export M2_HOME=/usr/lib/apache-maven-3.2.1
- Also define the M2 environment variable so type export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
- Next type export PATH=$M2:$PATH and save .bash_profile and quit ( :wq )
- Finally type source ~/.bash_profile. Note that when you close and open a new shell, the same settings will be intact.
Confirm the new settings by typing mvn -version to see the updated Maven version and home.
Congratulations, you just customised Maven on your machine.
Just as am writing this post, am thinking about some stuff about Nexus repository manager which will enable you to manage your Maven repositories. Never mind, I'll cover Nexus in another upcoming post. Stay tuned :)