Install Apache Maven and verify

In this section, we will be installing Maven 3.3.9 and after that, we will set the environment path:

[root@awsstar ~]# wget http://www-eu.apache.org/dist/maven/maven-3/3.3.9/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz
[root@awsstar ~]# tar -xf apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz
[root@awsstar ~]# mv apache-maven-3.3.9 /opt
[root@awsstar ~]# vi /etc/bashrc

Add
export PATH=/opt/apache-maven-3.3.9/bin:$PATH
:wq (save and quit)

[root@awsstar ~]# source /etc/bashrc
[root@awsstar ~]# mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.3.9 (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T16:41:47+00:00)
Maven home: /opt/apache-maven-3.3.9
Java version: 1.8.0_141, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.141-2.b16.el6_9.x86_64/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: ANSI_X3.4-1968
OS name: "linux", version: "4.10.0-28-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"