Installing Maven on a fresh RedHat/Centos 5.5…

This one had me a bit baffled but the recipe turned out to be easy once you know which chickens to sacrifice in which order. So:

Add the jpackage info into /etc/yum.repos.d:

http://www.jpackage.org/jpackage50.repo

Fix a dependency problem:

rpm -Uvh http://plone.lucidsolutions.co.nz/linux/centos/images/jpackage-utils-compat-el5-0.0.1-1.noarch.rpm

Then yum update and then:

yum install maven2

400 updates later, you’re in business!

# mvn --version
/usr/lib/jvm/java
Maven version: 2.0.7
Java version: 1.6.0_17
OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.18-194.el5" arch: "amd64"

That’s all! Hopefully this will get some google fu and help someone!

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 27th, 2011 at 7:30 pm. It is filed under Programming and tagged with CentOS, Computing, Free software, Java, jpackage, Linux, maven, Red Hat, RPM Package Manager, yum. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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T0MA says:

August 17, 2011 at 12:09 am

that patch just been sent to the developers! thx for the post

Pankaj M. Tolani says:

July 13, 2012 at 5:06 pm

I have posted this on centos discussion and information list. any inputs from you would be great

This used to work for me last week

I basically need to install maven2 along with all its dependencies

So I follow the suggestions at http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog/2011/04/installing-maven-on-a-fresh-redhatcentos-5-5/

Now at the yum update step, I have started seeing lots of HTTP Error 404. Have some of the repos moved?

I know a solution is yum clean all and then do yum update but then that also updates firefox and xulrunner for me which screws up product I use.

Please tell me a way out. I dont want to do firefox/xulrunner upgrade, but just maven2 installation as suggested on the page

thanks,
pankaj

davehodg says:

July 26, 2012 at 3:03 pm

Pankaj,

Error 404 sounds like you have a bad internet connection or the proxy you are going through is getting in the way. Doesn’t sounds like software I’m afraid!

Dave

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