Maven Install on Mac OS X - macos

Question

I'm trying to install maven through the terminal by following these instructions.
So far I got this:
export M2_HOME=/user/apple/apache-maven-3.0.3
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export PATH=$M2:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_22
Where do you go to find this?

Answer 1

Alternatively, I recommend installing Homebrew for these kinds of utilities.
Then you just install Maven using:
brew install maven
PS: If you got a 404 error, try doing a brew update just before

Answer 2

Disclaimer: Here is a complete answer taking the last version of OS X (10.9 AKA Mavericks) into account. I am aware that everything I compiled in this answer is already present in the page, but having it clearly in one answer makes it a lot clearer.
First of all, with previous versions of OS X, Maven is installed by default. If Java is missing running you#host:~ $ java in a terminal will prompt you for the Java installation.
With Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), Maven is not installed by default anymore. Different options are then possible:
Using Homebrew:
you#host:~$ brew install maven will install latest Maven (3.5.2 on 02/01/2018)
you#host:~$ brew install maven30 will install Maven 3.0 if needed
Using Macports: (I did not test this)
you#host:~$ sudo port install maven will install latest Maven (?)
or:
you#host:~$ sudo port install maven3 will Install Maven 3.0
you#host:~$ sudo port select --set maven maven3 selects that version of Maven
Installing by hand:
Download Maven from its homepage
Follow the installation instructions:
Extract the distribution archive, i.e.apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz to the directory you wish to install Maven 3.3.9. The subdirectory apache-maven-3.3.9 will be created from the archive.
Optional: Add the MAVEN_OPTS environment variable to specify JVM properties, e.g. export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m". This environment variable can be used to supply extra options to Maven.
Make sure that JAVA_HOME is set to the location of your JDK, e.g. export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home -v 1.8) and that $JAVA_HOME/bin is in your PATH environment variable (although that might not be necessary with the latest Mac OS X versions and the Oracle JDK).
Add extracted apache-maven-3.3.9/bin to your $PATH
Run mvn --version to verify that it is correctly installed.

Answer 3

OS X prior to Mavericks (10.9) actually comes with Maven 3 built in.
If you're on OS X Lion, you won't have java installed by default. Run java by itself and it'll prompt you to install it.
Assuming qualifications are met, run mvn -version and see some output like this:
Apache Maven 3.0.3 (r1075438; 2011-02-28 12:31:09-0500)
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.6.0_29, vendor: Apple Inc.
Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.7.2", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"

Answer 4

When I upgraded recently to OS X Mavericks and my maven builds start failing. So I needed to install maven again as it doesn't come built in. Then I tried with the command:
brew install maven
it works, but it installs the version 3.1.1 of maven which causes some problems for a few users like (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/AetherClassNotFound). So if you're running into the same issue you will probably want to install the earlier Maven version, the 3.0.5. To do that with Homebrew, you have to execute the following command:
brew install https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-versions/master/maven30.rb
That's it, it will then use a different Homebrew's formulae which will give you the maven 3.0.5 instead.

Answer 5

macOS Sierra onwards
brew install maven

Answer 6

To install Maven on OS X, go to the Apache Maven website and download the binary zip file.
You can then shift the apache-maven-3.0.5 folder in your Downloads folder to wherever you want to keep Maven; however as the rest of the process involves the command line, I recommend you do everything from there.
At the command line, you would run something like:
mv ~/Downloads/apache-maven-3.0.5 ~/Development/
This is just my personal preference - to have a "Development" directory in my home directory. You can choose something else if you wish.
Next, edit ~/.profile in the editor of your choice, and add the following:
export M2_HOME="/Users/johndoe/Development/apache-maven-3.0.5"
export PATH=${PATH}:${M2_HOME}/bin
The first line is important to Maven (and must be a full explcit path); the second line is important to the shell, in order to run the "mvn" binary. If you have a variation of that second line already in .profile, then simply add ${M2_HOME}/bin to the end of it.
Now open a second terminal window and run
mvn -version
which should give output like...
Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 13:51:28+0000)
Maven home: /Users/johndoe/Development/apache-maven-3.0.5
Java version: 1.7.0_40, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_40.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.9", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
Couple of things to note:
If you've installed the Oracle JDK 1.7, then you may find Maven reports JDK 1.6 in the above output. To solve this, add the following to your ~/.profile:
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
As some have pointed out, Maven has historically been supplied either with OS X itself, or with the optional Command Line Tools for XCode. This may cease to be the case for future versions of OS X, and in fact OS X Mavericks does not include Maven. Personal opinion: This could be because they are still in beta, or it could be that Apple have taken a look at the latest Thoughtworks Technology Radar, and spotted that Maven has been moved to "Hold".

Answer 7

If using MacPorts on OS X 10.9 Mavericks, you can simply do:
sudo port install maven3
sudo port select --set maven maven3

Answer 8

A simple approach to install Maven.
Open Terminal
Finder -> Go -> Utilities -> Terminal
Install Homebrew using the below command
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
After that install maven
brew install maven

Answer 9

Just a brief addition; if you want to install a specific version on MacOS using Homebrew 1.5.2, you can install it the following way:
brew update
brew search maven
This will give you maven versions available in homebrew
brew install maven#3.3
[If you want to install maven 3.3.]

Answer 10

Two Method
(use homebrew) Auto install:
Command:
brew install maven
Pros and cons
Pros: easy
Cons: (probably) not latest version
Manually install (for latest version):
Pros and cons
Pros: use your expected any (or latest) version
Cons: need self to do it
Steps
download latest binary (apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.zip) version from Maven offical download
uncompress it (apache-maven-3.6.3-bin.zip) and added maven path into environment variable PATH
normally is edit and add:
export PATH=/path_to_your_maven/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin:$PATH
into your startup script( ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc etc.)
Extra Note
how to take effect immediately and check installed correctly?
A:
source ~/.bashrc
echo $PATH
which mvn
mvn --version
here output:
➜ bin pwd
/Users/crifan/dev/dev_tool/java/maven/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin
➜ bin ll
total 64
-rw-r--r--# 1 crifan staff 228B 11 7 12:32 m2.conf
-rwxr-xr-x# 1 crifan staff 5.6K 11 7 12:32 mvn
-rw-r--r--# 1 crifan staff 6.2K 11 7 12:32 mvn.cmd
-rwxr-xr-x# 1 crifan staff 1.5K 11 7 12:32 mvnDebug
-rw-r--r--# 1 crifan staff 1.6K 11 7 12:32 mvnDebug.cmd
-rwxr-xr-x# 1 crifan staff 1.5K 11 7 12:32 mvnyjp
➜ bin vi ~/.bashrc
➜ bin source ~/.bashrc
➜ ~ echo $PATH
/Users/crifan/dev/dev_tool/java/maven/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin:xxx
➜ bin which mvn
/Users/crifan/dev/dev_tool/java/maven/apache-maven-3.6.3/bin/mvn
➜ bin mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.6.3 (cecedd343002696d0abb50b32b541b8a6ba2883f)
Maven home: /Users/crifan/dev/dev_tool/java/maven/apache-maven-3.6.3
Java version: 1.8.0_112, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_112.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: zh_CN, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.14.6", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
for full detail please refer my (Chinese) post: 【已解决】Mac中安装Gradle

Answer 11

This command brew install maven30 didn't work for me. Was complaining about a missing FORMULA. But the following command did work. I've got maven-3.0.5 installed.
brew install homebrew/versions/maven30
This is for Mac OS X 10.9 aka Mavericks.

Answer 12

If you don't want to install Homebrew only for install Maven you could simply do this:
Download the binary Maven and extract the zip
Launch the Terminal and type this command:
sudo ln -s /path_to_maven_folder/bin/mvn /usr/bin/mvn
You can find more details on this post.

Answer 13

Open terminal
Just use brew command to install maven
brew install maven
After the download and install finished. Check for the maven version
mvn -version
Here you go !!! Now you have successfully installed maven on your mac os.

Answer 14

If you have tried brew install maven and were greeted with missing gcc compiler and some other dependencies, an easier approach is to install sdkman
and then run
sdk install maven
(or refer to the latest documentation for the right command)
sdkman is probably over-qualified for the job, but if you deal with multiple versions of SDKs, it's a pretty nice tool to have in general.
Credits to Ammar for the excellent tip

Answer 15

brew install maven31 (if you have homebrew)

Answer 16

for the ones that just migrated to mavericks - I used the *-ux solution;
download maven from apache maven site
put in /opt
modified .bash_profile and added:
alias mvn='/opt/apache-maven-3.1.1/bin/mvn'
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_21.jdk/Contents/Home

Answer 17

Open a TERMINAL window and check if you have it already installed.
Type:
$ mvn –version
And you should see:
Apache Maven 3.0.2 (r1056850; 2011-01-09 01:58:10+0100)
Java version: 1.6.0_24, vendor: Apple Inc.
Java home: /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
OS name: “mac os x”, version: “10.6.7″, arch: “x86_64″, family: “mac”
If you don't have Maven installed already, then here is how to download and install maven, and configure environment variables on Mac OS X:
http://bitbybitblog.com/install-maven-mac/

Answer 18

On Maverick, run in the terminal
xcode-select --install
to install the Command Line Tools.

Answer 19

You can use Maven Version Manager through which you can use multiple version of Maven per directory base.
Installation
Using Homebrew brew install mvnvm
Without Homebrew mkdir -p ~/bin && curl -s https://bitbucket.org/mjensen/mvnvm/raw/master/mvn > ~/bin/mvn && chmod 0755 ~/bin/mvn and add ~/bin to path.
Usage
Default Version
To set default maven version set the environment variable DEFAULT_MVN_VERSION to the maven version to be used by default.
Maven version for the folder
Create a file named mvnvm.properties in the folder and configure the maven version as follows
mvn_version=<maven version>

Answer 20

Two ways to install Maven
Before installing maven
check mvn -version to make sure maven is not install in system
Method 1:
brew install maven
Method 2:
go to https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi
Select any of Binary link
Unzip the link
Move to application folder
Update .bash profile with exports
run mvn -version

Answer 21

This worked for me:
$ vim .bash_profile
export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
$ source .bash_profile
credit: http://www.mkyong.com/java/maven-java_home-is-not-defined-correctly-on-mac-osx/

Answer 22

% sudo port selfupdate;
% sudo port upgrade outdated;
% sudo port install maven3;
% sudo port select --set maven maven3;
— add following to .zshenv -- start using zsh if you dont —
set -a
[[ -d /opt/local/share/java/maven3 ]] &&
M3_HOME=/opt/local/share/java/maven3 &&
M2_HOME=/opt/local/share/java/maven3 &&
MAVEN_OPTS="-Xmx1024m" &&
M2=${M2_HOME}/bin
set +a

Answer 23

You can install maven using homebrew. The command is
$ brew install maven

Answer 24

After installing maven using brew or manually, using macOS Catalina and using the terminal or iTerm to operate maven you will need to grant access to the apps to access user files.
System Preferences -> Privacy (button) -> Full Disk Access
And then add terminal or iTerm to that list.
You will also need to restart your application e.g. terminal or iTerm after giving them full disk access.

Answer 25

For those who wanna use maven2 in Mavericks, type:
brew tap homebrew/versions
brew install maven2
If you have already installed maven3, backup 3 links (mvn, m2.conf, mvnDebug) in /usr/local/bin first:
mkdir bak
mv m* bak/
then reinstall:
brew uninstall maven2(only when conflicted)
brew install maven2

Answer 26

This worked for me. Its simpler and cleaner.
Open Mac terminal and type:
export MAVEN_HOME=~/apache-maven-3.8.1
export PATH=$PATH:$MAVEN_HOME/bin
Now when you type
mvn -version
You get an output:
Apache Maven 3.8.1 (05c21c65bdfed0f71a2f2ada8b84da59348c4c5d)
Maven home: /Users/nisha/apache-maven-3.8.1
Java version: 16.0.1, vendor: Oracle Corporation, runtime: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-16.0.1.jdk/Contents/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "11.4", arch: "x86_64", family: "Mac"
** Edited to add:
When you close the terminal and open again, you will get mvn: command not found and you will have to run the command again.
Refer this post for a permanent installation