With the installation complete, PATH updated and JAVA_HOME set, open up a terminal window (Found in /applications/utilities folder) and enter mvn -v.Do this by adding export JAVA_HOME= to your. Additionally, Maven needs to know where Java is installed so you will need to create a new enviromental variable named JAVA_HOME that will need to point to the root folder of your installed Java SDK folder (For example: /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_65.jdk/Contents/Home).You can find more details on where and how to update your path to point to the bin folder here Once you have extracted the folder, update the PATH so that it contains the path to the bin folder of the extracted Maven folder (For example adding /usr/local/apache-maven-3.5.4/bin).Once the zip has been downloaded, extract the folder to a location of your choosing (Such as /usr/local).Firstly, you will need to download the ‘Binary Zip Archive’ of Maven from here:.If there is anything missing or not clear in this guide, please leave a comment below. This page provides details around how to install Maven. Maven is a build automation tool that manages how a Java project is built and the it’s dependencies. To build a Java project you will need the tool Maven installed.