Installing Maven

Maven is a Java tool, and therefore, we need to have Java installed to use it. You should have Java on your system already if you're running Jenkins locally, but if not, you can download a JDK for your platform from the following link—version 6.0 or later is required:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

Once you've got the Java prerequisite sorted out, download Maven for your platform from the Apache site here:

https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

Then follow the installation steps for your operating system from this page:

https://maven.apache.org/install.html

On all platforms, the main requirement is to ensure that you have a JAVA_HOME variable in PATH, and that PATH also contains the Maven bin directory from the download you extracted.

Once you are set up, you should get something roughly comparable to the following when you run java –version and then mvn –version—I am also displaying the Java and Maven environment variables here for your...