$ wget http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/maven/maven-3/3.0.5/binaries/apache-maven-3.0.5-bin.tar.gz $ 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
$ sudo vi /etc/profile.d/maven.sh export M2_HOME=/usr/local/maven export PATH=${M2_HOME}/bin:${PATH}
source: http://preilly.me/2013/05/10/how-to-install-maven-on-centos/