Whoops! Sorry about that. I always used 3.1.1 manually installed, the version in Debian is carbon dated.The build server uses 3.1.1 as well.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Chris Hillery <[email protected]> wrote: > Quick note: as of the current AsterixDB tip 6059af3, Maven 3.1.1 is a > requirement to build. > > Unfortunately the newest version of Maven in the current Ubuntu Long-Term > Support release (Trusty Tahir, 14.04) is 3.0.5. Linux Mint 17 is derived > from Ubuntu LTS so it also only has 3.0.5. > > You can install Maven manually, of course, but if you want it handled by > your package manager, it's a little tricky. Here's what I did that worked: > > 1. Purge the old version of Maven. > > sudo apt-get purge maven\* > > 2. (optional) Remove packages that are possibly now not necessary. > > sudo apt-get --purge autoremove > > 3. Add the following PPA: > > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:natecarlson/maven3 > > 4. The PPA only has packages up through Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin), > but Java packages don't care much. So: > > sudo vi /etc/apt/sources/list.d/natecarlson-maven3-trusty.list > > and change "trusty" to "precise" on line 1 and 2. > > 5. Install Maven 3: > > sudo apt-get update > sudo apt-get install maven3 > > 6. (optional) The binary in this package named "mvn3", so alias "mvn" to > that or create a symlink on your PATH or whatever. > > Ceej > aka Chris Hillery
