On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 4:51 AM, Unnsse Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Kalle, > > Thanks for the suggestion (I thought about the same solution before > starting this initial thread on the mailing list)... > > The Apache Maven 2.1.0 working as the correct one by placing $MAVEN_HOME > before /usr/bin in my PATH as follows: > > export > PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:/opt/local/bin:$PS1:$PATH; > > The thing I dislike about this approach is that the previous Maven (2.0.6) > version still exists on my machine. > > Prior to Maven 2.1.0, I had installed the 2.0.6 version by downloading the > tar.gz (tarball) and then building Maven 2.0.6 by scratch which placed the > mvn script inside my /usr/bin directory. > > Is there a way to truly un-install / wipe the previous mvn (2.06) version > from my system? > > Many, many thanks! "rm -rf /usr/share/maven"? Typically, on linux and OS X, I'd expand the maven archive into a directory (e.g. /usr/share/maven-2.1.0) and toss in some softlinks: tar zxvf ~/apache-maven-2.1.0.tar.gz > mv apache-maven-2.1.0 /usr/share/maven-2.1.0 > mv /usr/share/maven /usr/share/maven-2.0.6 > ln -s /usr/share/maven-2.1.0 /usr/share/maven > > Then, at some point in the future, if I decide I don't want maven 2.0.6 anymore, I wipe it. -- Geoffrey Wiseman http://www.geoffreywiseman.ca/
