HOWTO install Maven for Ubuntu

Download maven at

http://maven.apache.org/download.html

apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.zip

Unzip it to java folder.

Create symlink

ln -s /home/alexey/java/maven-2.0.11 /home/alexey/java/maven2

Edit .bashrc

export MAVEN_HOME=/home/alexey/java/maven2

export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH