To
install Apache Maven on
Windows, you just need to download the Maven’s zip file, unzip it to a folder,
and configure the Windows environment variables.
Tested
with :
1. JDK 10
2. Maven 3.6
3. Windows 10
Note
1. Maven 3.3+ requires JDK
1.7+
2. Maven 3.2 requires JDK
1.6+
3. Maven 3.0/3.1 requires
JDK 1.5+
1. JDK and JAVA_HOME
Make
sure JDK is installed, and JAVA_HOME environment
variable is configured. To download Open JDK go to
Direct Download: https://download.java.net/java/GA/jdk14.0.2/205943a0976c4ed48cb16f1043c5c647/12/GPL/openjdk-14.0.2_windows-x64_bin.zip
Extract the zip file to a folder: Eg C:\Program Files\jdk-14.0.2
Next in the windows search Type Edit Enviroment Variables---
Enter Variable: JAVA_HOME Value: your_file_path_to_java_folder
2. Download Apache Maven
2.1
Visit Maven official website,
download the Maven zip file, for example : apache-maven-3.6.0-bin.zip.
2.2
Unzip it to any folder
Note
That’s all, just download and unzip, installation is NOT required.
3. Add MAVEN_HOME system
variable
Add
a MAVEN_HOME system variables, and point it to the
Maven folder.
3.1
Press Windows key, type adva and clicks on
the View advanced system settings
3.2 In
System Properties dialog, select Advanced tab and clicks on
the Environment Variables... button.
3.3 In
“Environment variables” dialog, System variables, Clicks on the New... button and add a MAVEN_HOME variable and point
it to c:\opt\apache-maven-3.6.0
4. Add %MAVEN_HOME%\bin
To PATH
In
system variables, find PATH, clicks on the Edit... button. In “Edit environment variable” dialog, clicks on
the New button and add this %MAVEN_HOME%\bin
REPEAT SAME for %JAVA_HOME%\bin
5. Verification
Done,
start a new command prompt, type mvn –version :
C:\Users\mkyong>mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.6.0 (97c98ec64a1fdfee7767ce5ffb20918da4f719f3; 2018-10-25T02:41:47+08:00)
Maven home: C:\opt\apache-maven-3.6.0\bin\..
Java version: 10.0.1, vendor: Oracle
Corporation, runtime: C:\opt\Java\jdk-10
Default locale: en_MY, platform encoding: Cp1252
OS name: "windows 10", version: "10.0", arch: "amd64", family: "windows"
C:\Users\mkyong>echo %MAVEN_HOME%
C:\opt\apache-maven-3.6.0
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The
Apache Maven is installed successfully on Windows.
6. FAQs
6.1
‘mvn’ is not recognized as an internal or external command?
> mvn -version
'mvn' is not recognized as an
internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
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Answer: Refer to Step 4, make sure the %MAVEN_HOME%\bin is added to the PATH system variable.
6.2 The
JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined correctly
> mvn -version
The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not defined
correctly
This environment variable is needed to run this
program
NB: JAVA_HOME should point to a JDK not a JRE
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