centOS install Maven
$ sudo tar xzf apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz -C /usr/local $ cd /usr/local $ sudo ln -s apache-maven-3.0.5 maven
Next, set up Maven path system-wide:
$ sudo vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh
export M2_HOME=/usr/local/maven
export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
Finally, log out and log in again to activate the above environment variables.
To verify successful installation of maven, check the version of maven:
$ mvn -version