Installing Maven 3.3.3 on Ubuntu 14

I am upgrading from 2.4 to 3.3.3 Pre-requisite: JDK 1.5 or above, JAVA_HOME set in environment variable Step 1) Download Maven-3.3.3 binary from a repository using the wget command. wget http://mirrors.sonic.net/apache/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz Step 2) Untar the downloaded binary. tar -zxf apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz Step 3) Move the application directory to /usr/local sudo cp -R apache-maven-3.3.3 /usr/local Step 4)