[Cialug] Update maven2 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

[Tim Wilson]

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Josh More
<MoreJ at alliancetechnologies.net>wrote:

>  The only Maven in Hardy, Hardy-Updates and Harvey-Backports is 2.0.8  (
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/ )
>
> If the previous admin knew what they were doing and worked exclusively
> within the Ubuntu paradigm, it should be trivial to upgrade to the newest
> long term release (10.04 was released today).  Then you'd get Maven 2.2.1.
>

We want to stick with the 2.0.x series for now.  Eventually, we will need to
update the box to a more recent distro.  At that point, I'm sure we'll be
upgraded to 2.2.x or maybe even 3.0.x.


>
> If they didn't, you should drive to wherever they work now and give them a
> smack.  :)
>

I don't have to drive to do that, just walk down the hall and upstairs. And
he deserves a smack for more than just that reason. :)


>
>
>  -Josh More, CISSP, GIAC-GSLC, GIAC-GCIH, RHCE, NCLP
> morej at alliancetechnologies.net
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> *From:* cialug-bounces at cialug.org [cialug-bounces at cialug.org] on behalf of
> Chris Freeman [cwfreeman at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 29, 2010 20:34
> *To:* Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> *Subject:* Re: [Cialug] Update maven2 in Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
>
>  Hmm, I'm guessing that box hasn't been updated in at least 5 months...
> :-)
>
>  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...)
>
>  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.
>
>  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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>> Tim
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