How to Install Maven in Ubuntu

Step 1
First you need to download Maven from the maven site : http://maven.apache.org/download.html
Select the latest version of Maven & make sure to download the *.tar.gz version.
eg : apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz

Step 2
Now you have the gz file with you & copy the gz file to the place where you want it to be installed.

Step 3
right click on the .gz file & select Extract Here option.

Step 4
Now copy the path of the Maven folder.
You can do this by right clicking the folder tab & select copy; it will copy the path.

Step 4
Now go to your Home Folder

Step 5
go to View menu & click on Show hidden Files menu. View -> Show hidden Files
or press ctrl+H

Step 6
Now start typing .bashrc in the Home Folder & then .bashrc file will be selected.

Step 7
Double click to open it & goto the bottom of the page.

Step 8
Insert these two commands to set the path for the Maven.

EXPORT MAVEN HOME =/home/yourname/foldername/apache-maven-3.0.3
EXPORT PATH = $MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH

Step 9
Right now you are done with maven. check whether it is working correctly by inserting this command in the terminal.
mvn -v

This will display a set of statements as below.

Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 23:01:09+0530)
Maven home: /home/xxxxxxxxx/myprograms/apache-maven-3.0.3
Java version: 1.6.0_25, vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.25/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "2.6.38-8-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

If you can see something similar to above, be happy. because oyu have successfully installed maven in your machine. :)