How To Install Maven In OS X

Maven Installation

Download Apache Maven from its website: http://maven.apache.org/bindownload.cgi
Copy the archive file to /opt directory and extract it:

$ cd Downloads
$ cp apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz /opt
$ cd /opt
$ tar -xvf apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz 

Set M2_HOME and PATH Environment Variables

$ nano ~/.bash_profile

(~/.bash_profile)

# Set Maven Home
export M2_HOME=/opt/apache-maven-3.3.9

# Export Maven bin to path
export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin

You can check the PATH by issuing the commands:

$ echo $PATH
/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/apache-ant-1.9.7/bin:/opt/apache-maven-3.3.9/bin

You can check maven installation by issuing the command:

$ mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.3.9 (bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5; 2015-11-10T17:41:47+01:00)
Maven home: /opt/apache-maven-3.3.9
Java version: 1.7.0_79, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_79.jdk/Contents/Home/jre
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "mac os x", version: "10.11.6", arch: "x86_64", family: "mac"