I have never had such a hard time in my life doing something like this, I have downloaded and unzipped and set the paths manually, i.e. below:
export M2_HOME=/Users/coolguy/Desktop/apache-maven-3.8.1
export M2=$M2_HOME/bin
export MAVEN_OPTS=-Xms256m -Xmx512m
export PATH=$M2:$PATH
Just as the maven docs illustrate yet continually I get 'maven' not found, even when cd'ing into the bin folder. mvn -ver - I have done this multiple times, and continuously keyword not found.
I'd actually prefer to do it via homebrew, and I have tried that multiple times as well; but continuously the steps do not work. Is this a big sur thing?
cameron@cool-guy-MacBook-Pro ~ % brew install maven
Updating Homebrew...
fatal: Could not resolve HEAD to a revision
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 2 taps (homebrew/cask and adoptopenjdk/openjdk).
==> New Casks
trezor-suite
==> Updated Casks
Updated 17 casks.
Warning: No available formula or cask with the name "maven".
==> Searching for similarly named formulae...
Error: No similarly named formulae found.
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)...
Error: No previously deleted formula found.
==> Searching taps on GitHub...
Error: No formulae found in taps.
Any tips greatly appreciated.
Note: My java version is:
java version "11.0.10" 2021-01-19 LTS
UPDATE, 2 more attempts in .bash_profile:
Now, I have .bash_profile as below: (moved folder to apps folder via tutorial).
export M2_HOME=/Applications/apache-maven-3.6.3
export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin
Still mvn not found..
Have also tried using just the below:
PATH=/Applications/apache-maven-3.6.3bin:$PATH
Still mvn not found..
Why is this insanely difficult?
Where the M2_HOME, M2 come from, can you ensure maven command exists in the path you added? If you're not familiar with shell PATH, just don't touch it.
M2 related variablesmaven with Homebrew: brew install maven