How to install Maven into Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6?

Question

I\'m working on a Scientific Linux box and am trying to install Maven using the yum command. Scientific Linux for those of you who do not know is based off of Red H

Answer 1

I had all kinds of conflicts trying to use the JPackage repo with Scientific Linux 6.2, but I had much better luck with dchen's repo from the "Fedora People" unofficial repositories. The repo config I used is:

# Note: Replaced $releasever with 6Server since SL's "6.2" doesn't work

[epel-apache-maven]
name=maven from apache foundation.
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-6Server/$basearch/
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0

[epel-apache-maven-source]
name=maven from apache foundation. - Source
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/dchen/apache-maven/epel-6Server/SRPMS
enabled=0
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0

The package itself is called apache-maven and installs maven 3.0.3.