To install Apache Maven on Ubuntu OS, you can use the “apt-get” command.

1. Search Maven package – apt-cache search

Search the Maven package in Ubuntu with apt command – apt-cache search maven

mkyong@mkyong-desktop:~$ apt-cache search maven
....
maven-ant-helper - helper scripts for building Maven components with ant
maven2 - Java software project management and comprehension tool

2. Install it – apt-get install

Install Maven with command – sudo apt-get install maven2. Apt will configured Maven for you automatically.

mkyong@mkyong-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install maven2
2 upgraded, 87 newly installed, 0 to remove and 263 not upgraded.
Need to get 97.2MB of archives.
After this operation, 271MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
....download many packages, patient

3. Verification

Type “mvn -version” to verify your installation.

mkyong@mkyong-desktop:~$ mvn -version
Maven version: 2.0.9
Java version: 1.6.0_0
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.28-11-generic" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"
mkyong@mkyong-desktop:~$

4. Done

If you see the above message, the Apache Maven is installed successfully.

Where Maven installed?
The Apt-get installation will install all the Maven required files in the following folder structure

/usr/bin/mvn
/usr/share/maven2/
/etc/maven2

P.S The Maven configuration is store in /etc/maven2

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