Building and installing Apache Maven 3.0.5 from sources

cd ~/tools
wget http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.0.5/apache-maven-3.0.5-src.tar.gz
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.0.5-src.tar.gz
cd apache-maven-3.0.5
#for the next line to succeed, you need a binary maven version in the path
mvn clean install -DskipTests
cd ..
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.0.5/apache-maven/target/apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz