Installing Maven on HortonWorks Sandbox

Apache Maven is a project management software, managing building, reporting and documentation of a Java  development project. In order to install and configure Hortonworks Sandbox.

For example, for version 3.0.4:

$ wget http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/maven/maven-3/3.0.5/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz
$ tar xzf apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local
$ cd /usr/local
$ ln -s apache-maven-3.0.5 maven

Next, set up Maven path system-wide:

$ sudo vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh

export M2_HOME=/usr/local/maven
export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}

Finally, log out and log in again to activate the above environment variables.
To verify successful installation of maven, check the version of maven:

$ mvn -version