Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Installing Maven under Mac OSX

Update 2011-09-12: Forget everything that's below here. Just install HomeBrew and type brew install maven.

Update 2008-03-28: Instead of following this article, you are probably better of with MacPorts. Thanks for the suggestion Nino!

I did not know it could be this hard to install Maven. I've installed Maven a bunch of times already but never before on a Mac. It took me about 1 hour!

Here is what you need to do:

  • Download the apache-maven.tar.gz. If you follow the link on the maven download page both Firefox and Safari will get an html page but save it as a tar file. Look in the downloaded file (search for the string "apache-maven") and extract a real download link. When in doubt run md5 apache-maven-version.tar.gz on the result and compare it to the MD5 that is posted on the download page.
  • Extract the tar somewhere. For example with tar xzf apache-maven-version.tar.gz. Here it gives an error (tar: A lone zero block at 3083) but so far it does not seem to affect the result.
  • Ignore all the babbling about environment.plist files, and just create a ~/.bash_profile and put something like the following in it:
    export M2_HOME=/Users/erik/apps/apache-maven-2.0.8 export M2=$M2_HOME/bin export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home/ export PATH=$PATH:$M2
That's it. Good luck!
Posted at 13:11
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15 comments:

  1. UnknownMarch 28, 2008 at 1:27 PM

    have you seen :

    macports.org

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  2. Erik van OostenMarch 28, 2008 at 2:47 PM

    Nice Nino. Yes, that looks a lot easier :)

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  3. AnonymousMarch 31, 2008 at 9:05 PM

    I guess you are not using leopard?

    http://www.gridshore.nl/2008/01/28/upgrading-maven-on-the-mac/

    greetz Jettro

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  4. Erik van OostenMarch 31, 2008 at 9:24 PM

    Nope, still on 10.4.11.

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  5. AnonymousApril 7, 2008 at 12:23 PM

    So this is just about how to set environment variables on Mac OS, right?

    I've been using Maven for years on Mac OS and other platforms and never felt there was any significant difference.

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  6. AnonymousJuly 26, 2008 at 7:17 PM

    thanks mate - just what i needed

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  7. ChandanaJanuary 20, 2009 at 5:18 PM

    Thanks for this link Jettro!

    I guess you are not using leopard?

    http://www.gridshore.nl/2008/01/28/upgrading-maven-on-the-mac/

    greetz Jettro

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  8. macgeekDecember 20, 2009 at 2:26 AM

    It is really tricky to install maven on macosx but it is worth the time.

    congratulations for an other great article. I am checking your blog daily!

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  9. AnilApril 14, 2010 at 5:51 AM

    Thanks

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  10. PolinomAugust 31, 2011 at 7:41 PM

    now about brew install maven :)

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  11. AnonymousOctober 8, 2012 at 8:00 PM

    if there is another version of maven already installed, du this:

    export PATH=$M2:$PATH

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  12. AnonymousJuly 27, 2013 at 4:08 PM

    You shouldn't have 2 Maven versions on your machine. Always go with the current version. Everything else leads do problems ;-)

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  13. Erik van OostenAugust 1, 2013 at 8:31 PM

    @versioneye, people don't even install a single Maven for fun, let alone 2 ;)

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  14. AnonymousAugust 19, 2013 at 11:37 PM

    @Erik

    ah, but they do. In my world of open source, its not unheard of 8-) (i've got 3).

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  15. Erik van OostenAugust 20, 2013 at 12:33 PM

    @anonymous, I've got 4 :(

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