Install Maven on Mac system easily and quickly. This post will give a complete walk through of installing Maven using brew and manual installation

Install maven with brew

1. Installing brew on Mac is simple process. You need to have brew installed on your system as a pre-requisite. You can install brew from here

2. Install maven as

   brew update
   brew install maven
   

3. Verify maven installation

   Pavans-MacBook-Pro:~ pavanpkulkarni$ mvn --version
   Apache Maven 3.5.2 (138edd61fd100ec658bfa2d307c43b76940a5d7d; 2017-10-18T03:58:13-04:00)
   Maven home: /usr/local/Cellar/maven/3.5.2/libexec
   Java version: 1.8.0_152, vendor: Oracle Corporation
   Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_152.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
   Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
   OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.13.3", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"
   

Install maven manually.

1. Download maven from here.

2. Run the below command to un-compress the tar.

   tar -xvf apache-maven-x.x.x-bin.tar.gz
   

3. Add M2_HOME to you .bash_profile file

   export M2_HOME=/Users/pavanpkulkarni/apache-maven-x.x.x
   export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin
   

4. Run source ~/bash_profile to reflect the changes. Open a new tab in terminal. Verify installation by running

   mvn --version
   

Note :

Default maven repo location is ~/.m2/repository. If you do not see a ~/.m2 directory, go ahead and create one as

touch ~/.m2

References:

1. https://maven.apache.org/install.html.
2. https://maven.apache.org/index.html