How do I install Maven 3?

Maven3 is the default in Ubuntu 12.04 (precise)

Maven2 is the latest in the repositories for 11.10.

PPAs for maven3 seem rather scarce - here is one for maverick - although not the very latest version available.

The best advice is to stay with the stable version available for your distro version.

However if you like to keep up-to-date yourself it is very straightforward to download the code and install yourself.

Download the .tar.gz file from here and follow the installation guidance on the same web-page

Here is a maven3 PPA that worked fine for me on 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natecarlson/maven3
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install maven3

If you have maven2 already installed from canonical repos this will not replace it but give you a mvn3 binary.

If you prefer to have the binary called mvn instead of mvn3 you can simply do the following:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mvn3 /usr/bin/mvn

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