How To Install maven on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install maven
on Ubuntu 20.04.
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 Ubuntu 20.04. 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 first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 20.04
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 Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove maven
Remove maven Configurations and Data
To remove maven
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install maven
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.