Installing maven2 in ubuntu

download apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz from http://maven.apache.org/download.html 

 

uppack to /usr/local/apache-maven/

 

sudo gedit /etc/profile

 

add this:

 

 export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-2.2.1

 export M2=$M2_HOME/bin

 export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"

 export PATH=$M2:$PATH

 

source /etc/profile

 

Run mvn --version to verify that it is correctly installed.

 

Done!