Installing maven on the Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi‘s raspbian image comes with oracle-java8-jdk already installed and I wanted to use this with maven. However if you install maven using apt-get it will install all kinds of other JDKs and things you don’t need. The solution to this is to install maven from it’s binary distribution. This is quite easy as everything it needs is already installed.

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