Install latest maven on Ubuntu

Maven Installation

1. Get the latest maven from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

2. Choose a binary zip or tar archive (see Link header) and download with

wget https://downloads.apache.org/maven/maven-3/3.8.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.8.3-bin.zip

1. Unzip and move to /usr/local/

unzip apache-maven-3.8.3-bin.zip
sudo mv apache-maven-3.8.3 /usr/local

1. add to path and reopen terminal

export PATH=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.8.3/bin:$PATH

or

ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.8.3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn

1. mvn version check

$ mvn -version

Apache Maven 3.8.3 (...)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven-3.8.3
Java version: 1.8.0_292, vendor: Private Build, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre
Default locale: en, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.4.0-18362-microsoft", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

[1] https://maven.apache.org/install.html

[2] https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Troubleshooting

1 Command 'unzip' not found

$ unzip apache-maven-3.8.1-bin.zip 

Command 'unzip' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install unzip

for installing unzip,

do:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install unzip

2 The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly

$ mvn -version

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE

3 check for java

Install Java as per the instructions in the next section.

Java Installation

$ java -version

Command 'java' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo apt install openjdk-11-jre-headless  # version 11.0.11+9-0ubuntu2~20.04, or
sudo apt install default-jre              # version 2:1.11-72
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jre-headless   # version 8u292-b10-0ubuntu1~20.04
sudo apt install openjdk-13-jre-headless  # version 13.0.4+8-1~20.04
sudo apt install openjdk-14-jre-headless  # version 14.0.2+12-1~20.04

for installing java:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install openjdk-8-jdk-headless

use JDK not JRE. i.e., openjdk-8-jdk-headless instead of openjdk-8-jre-headless otherwise you would come across an error like: Unable to find javadoc command:The javadoc executable '/usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64/bin/javadoc'

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