How to install Maven on windows

Maven is a build tool and is used to build a software project.

Here are the steps to install Maven on windows:

  1. First we need to download maven and extract it
  2. Add/Update environment variables e.g JAVA_HOME and MAVEN_HOME.
  3. Need to Add above maven path in PATH environment variable.
  4. Verify if Maven is installed or needs debugging

  1. Download Maven

        Download latest version of maven from https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

         Pick binary version for windows e.g apache-maven-3.9.8-bin.zip

         Unzip above binary file to a folder where you want to keep this maven installation.

      2. Setting environment variable

           We need to add both environment variables JAVA_HOME and MAVEN_HOME variables 

           to the Windows environment using system properties and then point them to the folder 

           where we have unzipped the binary zip file.

           We add above 2 environment variable by following below steps:

           To do that first Right click on MyComputer  then select properties and 

           go to Advanced System Settings then select Environment variables and  

            click on new button

      3. Update PATH environment variable

           In next step we need to update PATH variable by appending above 

           MAVEN_HOME/bin variable e.g PATH=%MAVEN_HOME%bin

       4. Verify

          Now verify if the installation is successful by command mvn -version

          This should show the installed maven version and we are very ready to 

           build project using maven now.

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