How to install Maven 3 in Linux

Maven 3 is required to build the trunk of the wso2 carbon.

Following steps will guide you to install maven3

1. Download Maven from http://maven.apache.org/download.html
2. unzip with the unzip apache-maven-3.0.3
3. Set Maven path in the .bashrc file
4. export PATH=/home/achala/software/apache-maven-3.0.3/bin:$PATH
5. Test the installation with mvn -version.