Installing Apache Maven

cd /usr/local/packages/
wget http://apache.multihomed.net/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz

cd /usr/local
/usr/local/bin/tar -xvzf /usr/local/packages/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz
mv apache-maven-2.2.1 maven

export M2_HOME=/usr/local/maven
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx256m"
export PATH=$M2:$PATH
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/java/jdk1.6.0_18
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

mvn --version