Installing maven2 without openjdk

Question

by default ubuntu comes with openjdk. I installed jdk from sun, and removed openjdk, but with openjdk I had to remove maven2. How can I reinstall it without installing openjdk?

~$ java -version
java version "1.7.0_03"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0_03-b04)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 22.1-b02, mixed mode)

~$ sudo apt-get install maven2
(...)
The following extra packages will be installed:
(...)
openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless
  openjdk-6-jre-lib
(...)
The following NEW packages will be installed:
(...)
openjdk-6-jdk openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless
  openjdk-6-jre-lib

Any help appreciated, I have googled a lot and I haven't found any solution :/

Answer 1

You can simply download tar.gz archive from Maven web-site and unpack it to some directory like this (will unpack it to /opt):

tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.0.4-bin.tar.gz -C /opt

After it you need to set $M2_HOME variable:

export M2_HOME=<path_to_maven>

And add it to PATH:

export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

To check you can launch:

mvn -version

Note: If it does not work for all the terminals. Performed the below steps. Become superuser.

Fire below commands.

nano /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

Paste the below lines.

export M2_HOME=<path_to_maven>

export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

ctrl +O to save and ctrl +X to exit.

Fire the below commands.

chmod +x /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

source /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

mvn -version