Installing Maven on a Mac
Current Mac OS X Snow Leopard comes with Maven 2.2.1 installed. Let’s go ahead and update it to the latest version 3.0.2.
First, download it from Apache Maven site.
Unzip the downloaded file into the desired folder. You can put it in /usr/local. However in my case I prefer /app folder.
Create a simple alias:
air:app dmitry$ ln -s apache-maven-3.0.2/ maven air:app dmitry$ ls apache-maven-3.0.2 eclipse maven
We are almost done. Update your .profile to setup PATH
export M2_HOME=/apps/maven export M2=$M2_HOME/bin export PATH=$M2:$PATH
Source your .profile file and we are done. Let’s make sure of that:
air:~ dmitry$ mvn -version Apache Maven 3.0.2 (r1056850; 2011-01-08 19:58:10-0500) Java version: 1.6.0_22, vendor: Apple Inc. Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.6.6", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
