Optional: Create Java user
wget http://apache.mivzakim.net/maven/maven-3/3.2.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.2.3-bin.tar.gz tar -zxvf apache-maven-3.2.3-bin.tar.gz sudo mv apache-maven-3.2.3/ /usr/local/apache-maven-3.2.3 sudo ln -s /usr/local/apache-maven-3.2.3 /usr/local/apache-maven #OPTIONAL - See http://wiki.korotkin.co.il/howto/create_java_user sudo chown -R java.java /usr/local/apache-maven* sudo chmod -R 775 /usr/local/apache-maven*
edit ~/.bashrc
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-oracle export M3_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven export M3=$M3_HOME/bin export PATH=$JAVA_HOME:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$M3:$PATH