INSTALLING MAVEN

# cd /opt


# wget -c http://www.eng.lsu.edu/mirrors/apache//maven/binaries/apache-maven-3.0-bin.tar.gz

# tar xvzf apache-maven-3.0-bin.tar.gz

# vi /etc/profile

Add the following lines to the end of the file

M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.0
export M2_HOME
PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

:wq // save the file


# source /etc/profile

Apache maven is installed and ready to use.