centos-maven-install

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This is a script that automates the download and installation of the latest maven

This was made with help from http://xmodulo.com/2012/05/how-to-install-maven-on-centos.html

How to run:

chmod +x maven-install.sh

sudo ./maven-install.sh

TODO:

• Check to see if the profile.d directory exists before starting the script
• Check to see if the distro is RHEL/Centos
• Check to see if the user has permission to write to /usr/local
• Check to see if the mvn command exists after fixing the environment variables
• Better error messages
• Check for a previous installation
• If found prompt for removal
• Argument to install a specific version
• Detect the current version with regex and curl
• Download to a temporary directory
• Verify instalation
• Handle all of the sudo access within the script
• Handle mirrors
• Fix the installing user's path and m2 variable after the install

Author assumes no responsiblity or liablity for this script, use at your own risk and ofcourse read/understand what this does before running.