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Long Instructions

Maven 2 Installation

On Linux, an appropriate version of Maven 2 can be installed as follows.

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wget http://www.lcsim.org/dist/maven2/2.0.9/apache-maven-2.0.9-bin.zip
unzip apache-maven-2.0.9-bin.zip

Now, the environment needs to be setup so that Netbeans finds can find this external copy of Maven versioninstallation. The Also, the Maven bin directory must be added to the system path.

Setting Up the Linux Environment

In your command shell, go to the directory where maven was downloaded and execute this command.

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unzip apache-maven-2.0.10-bin.zip

Then This will add the bin directory to the path on Linux using bash.. (This assumes a bash shell.)

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export M2_HOME=/path/to/apache-maven-2.0.910
export PATH=$M2_HOME/bin:$PATH

It These commands can be placed in the RC file for your shell so that this is these variables are setup automatically when you login.

Setting Up the Windows Environment

Navigate to the maven zip file, right click on it, and select Extract All from the menu.

Open the System menu under Control Panel > System (the icon looks like a computer).

Go to the Advanced tab under System and click on Environment Variables.

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