Note
Please note: you will need to download Maven 2.0.5! The "latest and greatest" version 2.0.7 might not work for you.
You can get Maven 2.0.5 at http://archive.apache.org/dist/maven/binaries/. Choose the package that is most convenient for you, like maven-2.0.5-bin.zip, download it, unpack and copy the resulting directory to a convenient place on your computer. It can become /Users/YourUserName/maven-2.0.5
on a Mac or C:\maven-2.0.5
on a Windows machine.
Finally, add the path to Maven's bin directory to the PATH variable of your system. On a Windows machine, the addition to the PATH variable should look like, C:\maven-2.0.5\bin
. On a Mac, add the following string to .bash_profile
(but replace YourUserName with your actual user name):
export PATH=${PATH}:/Users/YourUserName/maven-2.0.5/bin
Finally, to check if everything was set up properly, enter the following command:
mvn -version
The output should be similar to this:
Maven version: 2.0.5
Now we are ready to use Maven to...