Download the Apache maven from this link https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi, extract the download archive, can also use the command.
cd ~/Downloads wget http://apache.mirrors.timporter.net/maven/maven-3/3.1.1/binaries/apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/apache-maven sudo mv apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz /usr/local/apache-maven cd /usr/local/apache-maven sudo tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.1.1-bin.tar.gz
Edit ~/.profile with
gedit ~/.profile
and add these four lines:
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/apache-maven/apache-maven-3.1.1 export M2=$M2_HOME/bin export MAVEN_OPTS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m" export PATH=$M2:$PATH