Prerequisite:- JDK 1.5 or above, JAVA_HOME set in environment variable.
Here are the steps to install Maven 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 15.04
wget http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
tar -zxf apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz
sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.3.3 /usr/local
sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.3.3 (12a6b3acb947671f09b81f49094c53f426d8cea1; 2014-12-14T17:29:23+00:00)
Maven home: /usr/local/apache-maven-3.2.5
Java version: 1.7.0_80, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "3.13.0-48-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
You may tried to install Maven plugin for eclipse and failed. The problem may be caused by the version. So to solve the problem, you can download a latest version of eclipse. The following shows how I install maven plugin for eclipse under Ubuntu. For Windows platform, it should be the same.
Download Eclipse Kepler
Download latest version of eclipse from: https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/.
Select “Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers”.
Install Maven Eclipse Plugin
Go to http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/download/, and select the latest m2e release. The URL is http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases.
Go to Eclipse “Help” -> “Install New Software …”, and put the correct url. It should looks like the following:
install-maven-eclipse-plugin
Click “Next” to complete.