Maven Installation (on CentOs 7)

maven-install.sh

# The first thing we need to do is to download the Maven tar file and untar it to a shared location on the workstation
# wget required (yum install wget)

# STEP 1 - Get Maven Install

export JAVA_HOME='/etc/alternatives/jre_1.8.0'
export MAVEN_VERSION='3.5.2' 
export MAVEN_MIRROR='http://apache.mindstudios.com'
wget $MAVEN_MIRROR/maven/maven-3/$MAVEN_VERSION/binaries/apache-maven-$MAVEN_VERSION-bin.tar.gz -P /tmp

su -c 'tar -zxvf /tmp/apache-maven-$MAVEN_VERSION-bin.tar.gz -C /opt'

# STEP 2 - Create a maven.sh 

# Setup the Maven Environment Variables in shared profile.
# The next step is to setup the Maven environment variables in a shared profile so all users on the system will get them import at login # time.

echo "export M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-$MAVEN_VERSION" >>  "/etc/profile.d/maven.sh"
echo "export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME" >>  "/etc/profile.d/maven.sh"
echo 'export M2=$M2_HOME/bin' >>  "/etc/profile.d/maven.sh"
echo 'PATH=$M2:$PATH' >> "/etc/profile.d/maven.sh"

# check content with : su -c "vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh"

# Now test your install of Maven.
# Reload profile with . /etc/profile or Logout of the system and then log back into it. Enter the following command: mvn -version

# you are done