Maven: install on mac. Tutorial for brew and the official method.
You received your new Apple shiny machine and you don't remember how to install Maven?
In the video we describe how to install Maven using Homebrew. In the post you can find alternative methods.
Homebrew is de facto the package manager for macOS. If you cannot use brew you can look at the alternative installation procedures described in the post.
Here are the few steps required:
1. Install Homebrew if it is not present yet
Verify that brew is installed in your system.
marco@mac ~ % brew
Example usage:
brew search TEXT|/REGEX/
If the command is not found go to https://brew.sh and copy / paste the instruction found in your Terminal.
2. Install maven
In your macOS Terminal write:
brew maven
Maven will be installed by brew.
3. Verify your maven installation
When brew confirm the installation you can verify if maven is working correctly.
marco@Marcos-Mac-mini ~ % mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.8.4 (9b656c72d54e5bacbed989b64718c159fe39b537)
Maven home: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/maven/3.8.4/libexec
Java version: 17.0.1, vendor: Homebrew, runtime: /opt/homebrew/Cellar/openjdk/17.0.1/libexec/openjdk.jdk/Contents/Home
Alternative methods
If you can't or you don't want to use brew.sh for the installation of Maven we describe here alternatives methods.
Official method
The official maven installation instructions are the following:
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Have a JDK installation on your system. Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable pointing to your JDK installation or have the java executable on your PATH.
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Extract the archive in any directory. The archive can be found here: https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
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unzip apache-maven-{version}-bin.zip or tar xzvf apache-maven-{version}-bin.tar.gz
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Add the bin directory of the created directory apache-maven-{version} to the PATH environment variable
SDKMan
If you are using SDKMan for your Java frameworks you can install maven simply with:
$ sdk install maven
You can find more examples about SDKMan in this blog Java Angular Setup