How to install Maven into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?

linux, maven, redhat, yum

Solution

The distro agnostic generic repo is what you want. As root, add a couple of the jpackage-generic repos to yum (two snippets below). Then perform a yum update and finally yum install maven2.

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic-free.repo << EOF
[jpackage-generic-free]
name=JPackage generic free
baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/free/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
EOF

cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/jpackage-generic-devel.repo << EOF
[jpackage-generic-devel]
name=JPackage Generic Developer
baseurl=http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/jpackage/6.0/generic/devel/
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage.asc
EOF

Problem

I'm working on a Scientific Linux box and am trying to install Maven using the `yum` command. Scientific Linux for those of you who do not know is based off of Red Hat Linux Enterprise Edition 6. I'd prefer to install Maven in a way that lent itself to easy updating, that is why I have shied away from simply going to the Apache Maven site and getting the files I need. Simply running `yum` with root privileges was not enough. I used `yum search maven` which returned "JPackage Utilities", which I tried to install only to get: ``` Package jpackage-utils-1.7.5-3.12.el6.noarch already installed and latest version ``` I was assuming that something like creating a new repo file something like `/etc/yum.repos.d/maven.repo` would do the trick. I found a site suggesting that I point my maven.repo file to the URL http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage50.repo, however this seems to be a fix for an older version of Linux as it did not solve my problem As always thanks in advance for any help or suggestions!

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