<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6343dc1e-6dc3-4760-bc82-37312115271a/6C4D0B51-214E-4C0C-AD4F-F58E876C9AAC/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://maven.apache.org/download.html" href="http://maven.apache.org/download.html" style="font-size: 11px;">maven.apache.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://maven.apache.org/download.html"><OL type="1"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Extract the distribution archive, i.e. <TT>apache-maven-2.0.8-bin.tar.gz</TT> to the directory you wish to install Maven 2.0.8. These instructions assume you chose <TT>"/usr/local/apache-maven"</TT> . The subdirectory <TT>apache-maven-2.0.8</TT> will be created from the archive.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">In a command terminal, add the <TT>M2_HOME</TT> environment variable, e.g. <TT>"export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-2.0.8"</TT> .</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Add the <TT>M2</TT> environment variable, e.g. <TT>"export M2=$M2_HOME/bin"</TT> .</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><B>Optional</B> : add the <TT>MAVEN_OPTS</TT> environment variable to specify JVM properties, e.g. <TT>"export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512m"</TT> . This environment variable can be used to supply extra options to Maven.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Add <TT>M2</TT> environment variable to your path, e.g. <TT>"export PATH=$M2:$PATH"</TT> .</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Make sure that <TT>JAVA_HOME</TT> is set to the location of your JDK, e.g. <TT>"export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.5.0_02"</TT> and that <TT>"$JAVA_HOME/bin"</TT> is in your <TT>PATH</TT> environment variable.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Run <TT>"mvn --version"</TT> to verify that it is correctly installed.</LI> </OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/6C4D0B51-214E-4C0C-AD4F-F58E876C9AAC/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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