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By: Upgrade maven and switch between versions using bash on the mac « Gridshore

Upgrade maven and switch between versions using bash on the mac « Gridshore — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:26:16 +0000

[...] versions using bash on the mac By jettro, on March 14th, 2011 Over three years a go I wrote a blog post explaining the steps to upgrade you maven installation on Mac OS X Leopard. I have been using snow leopard now for a while and things changed a bit. In one of the comments to [...]

By: Greg Smith

Greg Smith — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 07:15:13 +0000

Thanks. This is just what I was after.

By: Oskar Carlstedt

Oskar Carlstedt — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:39:21 +0000

The original Maven is installed into /usr/share/java (Mac OS 10.6.5). Just extract and copy your version of Maven to that directory (unzip apache-maven… sudo mv apache-maven… /usr/share/java). Then remove the old symbolic link to maven (sudo rm /usr/share/maven) and finally create a new symbolic link to the new maven (sudo ln -s /usr/share/java/apache-maven… /usr/share/maven)

By: Alef Arendsen

Alef Arendsen — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:18:40 +0000

You don’t have to re-open your terminal by the way. Otherwise: great stuff!

By: let x=x › Upgrading to Maven 2.1.0 on Macintosh OS X

let x=x › Upgrading to Maven 2.1.0 on Macintosh OS X — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 02:43:40 +0000

[...] the inforamtion on this page as a template, here’s the procedure I used to upgrade to the latest version at time of [...]

By: Getting Started with Cocoon 2.2 Under Mac OS X Leopard (1.5) « A Content Manifesto

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:06:44 +0000

[...] Follow these excellent steps for upgrading Maven on the Mac: Gridshore » Upgrading maven on the mac [...]

By: jettro

jettro — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:10:15 +0000

good suggestion,
thanks

By: Lars D

Lars D — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:32:51 +0000

This tip is great. Then only thing I would do different is to use links.

After moving /usr/share/maven to maven-2.0.6 copy the new maven version to /usr/share/maven-2.0.9.
Then create a link whit the command ln -s /usr/share/maven-2.0.9 maven

after youe ar done the structure should be somthing like this:
$ ll | grep maven lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 22 Feb 5 23:20 maven@ -> /usr/share/maven-2.0.9 drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 340 Feb 5 23:18 maven-2.0.6/ drwxr-xr-x@ 9 larsduvaas admin 306 Feb 5 09:36 maven-2.0.9/

Just change the link and you will be able to swap beetwen version very easy.

By: Skaag Argonius

Skaag Argonius — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:16:52 +0000

Ah yes, and you don’t have to meddle with modifying your path to point to the right version of Maven. The Apple bundled Maven sits in /usr/bin/ which is higher in priority than anything else you add in your path.

By: Skaag Argonius

Skaag Argonius — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:15:30 +0000

Actually, the macports.org option is NOT easier. For Leopard users, who have Maven bundled with the OS, I think using macports to bring Maven 2.0.9 is actually very bad. The reason is that it does not remove the old maven from /usr/share/maven, so you have junk in your system.

I am a heavy user of macports, don’t get me wrong – I love it. But in the case of Maven, and because it was bundled by Apple with Leopard, the method in this blog post is far superior.