Comments on: Upgrading maven on the mac

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!

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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 [...]

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

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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.

By: AJ

AJ — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:43:05 +0000

Thanks a bunch for posting this helpful info on the web

By: Chandan Benjaram

Chandan Benjaram — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:59:36 +0000

Thanks for the tip.

By: jettro

jettro — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 06:48:21 +0000

I agree with you that this looks pretty interesting. There is a but. You need to install http://www.macports.org in order to use it, which requires XCode3.0, which is not something everybod needs to have on his pc. I am also not sure how it is installed? Does it remove the old version?

But anyhow, thanks for the suggestion, for people having macports installed, this is by far the easiest method I have seen.