How to install maven on windows

By Lokesh Gupta | Filed Under: Maven

Maven is a build and dependency management tool for Java based application development. Just like other Java based development tools, it is not installed as Windows service, rather it is configured using windows environment variables.

In this maven tutorial, I am installing maven on a Windows 7 32bit machine.

Windows environment variables location:
Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > System > Advanced system settings > Environment Variables

Follow the steps needed to install maven on windows operating system.

Step 1) Install JDK and Add ‘JAVA_HOME’ Environment Variable

To install java, download JDK installer and add/update the JAVA_HOME variable to JDK install folder.

Step 2) Download Maven and add ‘MAVEN_HOME’ and ‘M2_HOME’ Environment Variables

Maven can be downloaded from this location. I have extracted it in location – D:/Latest Setup/apache-maven-3.0.4. You can choose your own location.

Set the M2_HOME and MAVEN_HOME variable to maven installation folder.

Step 3) Include ‘maven/bin’ directory in ‘PATH’ variable

To run maven from command prompt, this is necessary. Update the PATH variable with 'Maven-installation/bin' directory.

Step 4) Verify maven in console

Maven installation is complete. Now lets test it from windows command prompt.

Go to start menu and type cmd in application location search box.
Press ENTER. A new command prompt will be opened.
Type mvn -version in command prompt and hit ENTER.

$ mvn -version

This should show the version information of maven installed. If there is any error shown, cross-check all above steps.

In this tutorial, we learned how to install maven on windows.

Happy Learning !!

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Feedback, Discussion and Comments

Tanya
December 27, 2018

where did M2_HOME variable was set?
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- Kai Wang
  January 18, 2019
  
  MAVEN_HOME is same as M2_HOME
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nikita
July 27, 2018

Java and Maven installed properly but “‘mvn’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable command or batch file” error occur in cmd.
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- Lokesh Gupta
  July 27, 2018
  
  Maven /bin folder should be in path environment variable.
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  - AndroidDoctorr
    December 27, 2018
    
    What does this mean?
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Asha
July 25, 2014

I am not seeing Maven Dependency in Eclipse….any suggestion?
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- Lokesh
  July 25, 2014
  
  You will get some help from https://howtodoinjava.com/maven/adding-m2_repo-classpath-variable-in-eclipse-ide/
  Also install maven plugin for eclipse.
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bheem
July 21, 2014

could not find or load main class org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds. launcher error my system
I am using Windows 8
Jdk 8
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- Lokesh
  July 21, 2014
  
  maven 2 or maven 3? Try using variable M3_HOME instead of M2_HOME if you are using maven 3.
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Raunak
April 11, 2014

Thank you
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Tanya
April 7, 2014

Excellent Thank you
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kaarthik
November 15, 2013

thank you… it just took me 5 to 10 minutes to complete it…
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Neha Insa
November 14, 2013

i enterd maven_home,java_home and path,,bt still not excecute on cmd
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- Lokesh Gupta
  November 14, 2013
  
  After updating environment variables, open a new command prompt window to test it.
  Reply
  - Neha Insa
    November 15, 2013
    
    thanks ,,
    Reply
Satheesh
October 14, 2013

HI , Firstly thanks for your blog n tutorials. Nicely explained How to configure Maven in window environment.
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veerachandra
August 29, 2013

Hi Lokesh.. U did a grt job for the newbies..
Thanx a lot 🙂
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manoj
July 23, 2013

thanx bro its working
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Ummer
June 25, 2013

Hi Lokesh,
Its very good article, if you post how to install maven on other OS then its sounds better.
Thanks
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