How To Install maven on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install maven on Kali Linux.

What is maven

maven is:

Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project’s build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.

Maven’s primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to deal with:

* Making the build process easy
* Providing a uniform build system
* Providing quality project information
* Providing guidelines for best practices development
* Allowing transparent migration to new features

There are three methods to install maven on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install maven Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install maven using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install maven

Install maven Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install maven using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install maven

Install maven Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install maven using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install maven

How To Uninstall maven on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the maven package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove maven

Uninstall maven And Its Dependencies

To uninstall maven and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove maven

Remove maven Configurations and Data

To remove maven configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge maven

Remove maven configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove maven configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge maven

Dependencies

maven have the following dependencies:

• default-jre-headless

References

• maven website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install maven package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.