[Cialug] Update maven2 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

[Tim Wilson]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Chris Freeman <cwfreeman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm, I'm guessing that box hasn't been updated in at least 5 months... :-)


Yeah, and knowing the previous admin, probably longer than that. :)


>
> Generally, you'll want to find out if backports has a newer version
> available. Or, just upgrade the whole box to a more recent version of Ubuntu
> (or perhaps a different distro altogether...)
>

We do need to upgrade the box at some point, this is a 2 year old distro,
and I'm guessing the LTS part of it is short-term now.


>
> If any of those is not possible, you can uninstall it from apt-get and
> install it from source or binary distribution directly from where you got
> it. Note that this is less preferable from a support standpoint, but for
> this particular machine, it should be fine.
>

I got it working by downloading 2.0.11 from Apache, and un-tarring it in
place.  Of course, I did move the previous directory first. The one change I
had to do, was I had to set the M2_HOME environment variable.  Odd, I didn't
have to do that with 2.0.8.


> Chris
>
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:30 PM, Tim Wilson <tim_linux at wilson-home.com>wrote:
>
>> Ok, I'm sure this is simple, but I need to update maven2 to at least
>> v2.0.9.  It's on a server running Ubuntu 8.0.4 LTS, which has maven v2.0.8.
>>  I've tried the following:
>>
>> apt-get update ;# to update the lists of packages.
>> apt-get install maven2
>>
>> When I do "mvn -v", it still shows v2.0.8.
>>
>> I've downloaded the .tar.gz from
>> http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jaunty/maven2, which is v2.0.9.  But I
>> haven't installed it yet.  I'm saving that as a last resort.
>>
>> This is a box I inherited, so I don't know the status of any updates.
>>  Note, this is the server version of Ubuntu, so no X.
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
>>
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