Looks like a Debian packaging issue. The Debian maintainer may or may not be in the Maven user list, but your issue would be better directed to them.
I'm not an expert in tricky installations ... I'm scared to touch that by > hand. > You should not be afraid to install Maven directly from https://maven.apache.org/download.html , just untar it wherever you want and add it to the path https://maven.apache.org/install.html Relying on a linux distribution's packages for your development tools is a precarious situation. They will lag behind the current version. Installing them from the tool provider directly is safer. On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM F B <it.li...@miboe.net> wrote: > Dear maintainer(s), > > I've got exactly the same error as reported by Emmanuel Bourg: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980467 > > I'm running Linux Mint "5.4.0-122-generic #138-Ubuntu SMP" with Cinnamon > and Eclipse 2022-06, OpenJDK 17.0.4 and Maven 3.6.3 > > According to the comments, I wanted to update Maven by > sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install maven > but received: > >> Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig > Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. > Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig > maven ist schon die neueste Version (3.6.3-1). > 0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 7 nicht > aktualisiert. << > > The import part is the second-last line: > maven is already newest version (3.6.3-1). > > I'm not an expert in tricky installations and I see links from > /usr/share/maven to /etc/maven and from /usr/bin to /etc/alternatives. I'm > scared to touch that by hand. > > That all said: Why does Mint not upgrade Maven to 3.8.6 ? Is there an easy > way to force that update? > > Kind regards and sorry for this newbie-questions > F. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > >
