Installing Maven on Mac OS
1 min readMay 22, 2019
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- Download Maven binary archive (apache-maven-3.6.1-bin.tar.gz)
2. Go to your Downloads/ in terminal and extract the contents of the archive:
➜ Downloads tar xfz apache-maven-3.6.1-bin.tar
3. Move the extracted content to any folder, eg Applications:
mv Downloads/apache-maven* /Applications/apache-maven-3.6.1
4. Next, setup maven classpath to your environment variable by updating .bash_profile
file:
- open it in terminal:
➜ ~ open ~/.bash_profile
- edit the file by adding the following lines:
export M2_HOME=/Applications/apache-maven-3.6.1
export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin
- reload
.bash_profile
:
➜ ~ source ~/.bash_profile
5. Now you have successfully added Maven, and you can check its version like this:
mvn -v