Building and installing Apache Maven from sources (no sudo needed)

Maven 3.0.3

Maven 3.0.4 is known for it's incompatibilities connecting to self signed certificates, which can be solved by a small patch. If you don't depend on this version, it's even easier not to use the broken version at all. Here's how to build from sources:

mkdir -p ~/tools
cd ~/tools
wget http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.0.3/apache-maven-3.0.3-src.tar.gz
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.0.3-src.tar.gz
cd apache-maven-3.0.3
#for the next line to succeed, you need a binary maven version in the path
mvn clean install -DskipTests
cd ..
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.0.3/apache-maven/target/apache-maven-3.0.3-bin.tar.gz

Maven 3.2.3

mkdir -p ~/tools
cd ~/tools
wget http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/apache-maven/3.2.2/apache-maven-3.2.2-src.tar.gz
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.2.2-src.tar.gz
cd apache-maven-3.2.2
#for the next line to succeed, you need a binary maven version in the path
mvn clean install -DskipTests
cd ..
tar xvzf apache-maven-3.2.2/apache-maven/target/apache-maven-3.2.2-bin.tar.gz