Upgrading Maven on Mac

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Tried to upgrade maven. Followed this tutorial. Now I am getting this

How does a file exist and not exist?

I did 1. brew update 2. brew search maven 3. brew install maven 4. mvn -version To double check 5. brew upgrade maven => it will throw an error Error: maven 3.5.4 already installed — user1769790, Oct 24 '18 at 22:41

score 53 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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To upgrade to the latest version (if you have one already installed but need to update the version) do the following:

1. brew update
2. brew unlink maven
3. brew install maven

if you then execute the mvn --version command you should see that your version of maven has been upgraded.

EDIT:
If you have an issue with the update (command 1) that goes along the lines of
error: The following untracked working tree files would be overwritten by merge: Library/Formula/...
try this answer from another issue

edited May 23 '17 at 11:54

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answered Aug 31 '14 at 17:42

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I also had to run `brew link --overwrite maven` – Grizz Dec 03 '18 at 23:53
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I just did `brew update && brew upgrade maven` and it worked :) – Osguima3 Mar 22 '19 at 16:15

score 30 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 19 '13 at 08:51

You created a symbolic link from your Downloads directory with a directory that may not exist anymore (or with an incorrect path). The directory /usr/bin/mvn obviously exists but the link is incorrect to the target which leads to the "No such file or directory" error when typing mvm --version.

Go through the tutorial again (which seems ok) but if you fail you could always try using Homebrew with the following commands :

brew update
brew install maven

I went through the tutorial and did not work, brew worked. Thanks — nupac, Nov 19 '13 at 09:02

score 23 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 31 '19 at 23:06

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if you installed maven in your mac, i use the next command...

>brew upgrade maven

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answered Jan 31 '19 at 23:06

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Don't include screenshots on remote sites. Including images in answers is only marginally better. Its generally better to just include the text and use the SO to format it. – danblack Jan 31 '19 at 23:30

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 11 '19 at 08:48

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I will be fixed if you run below commands

brew update
brew install maven

Still issue is exist check your M2_HOME path. It should set to M2_HOME=/usr/local/bin/mvn

answered Nov 11 '19 at 08:48

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