Hi, Agreed with Greg, that's Linux Mint maintener issue. The apt-get explains version 3.6.3-1 is the last available. I don't know if Mint is based on Debian, but Debian' Buster last version is 3.6.3-1 and newer Debian versions provide 3.6.3-5. May be maintener needs help to wake-up
Regardes, Arnaud Le mar. 16 août 2022, 01:36, Greg Chabala <greg.chab...@gmail.com> a écrit : > Looks like a Debian packaging issue. The Debian maintainer may or may not > be in the Maven user list, but your issue would be better directed to them. > > I'm not an expert in tricky installations ... I'm scared to touch that by > > hand. > > > > You should not be afraid to install Maven directly from > https://maven.apache.org/download.html , just untar it wherever you want > and add it to the path https://maven.apache.org/install.html > > Relying on a linux distribution's packages for your development tools is a > precarious situation. They will lag behind the current version. Installing > them from the tool provider directly is safer. > > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 4:22 PM F B <it.li...@miboe.net> wrote: > > > Dear maintainer(s), > > > > I've got exactly the same error as reported by Emmanuel Bourg: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=980467 > > > > I'm running Linux Mint "5.4.0-122-generic #138-Ubuntu SMP" with Cinnamon > > and Eclipse 2022-06, OpenJDK 17.0.4 and Maven 3.6.3 > > > > According to the comments, I wanted to update Maven by > > sudo apt-get --only-upgrade install maven > > but received: > > >> Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig > > Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut. > > Statusinformationen werden eingelesen.... Fertig > > maven ist schon die neueste Version (3.6.3-1). > > 0 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 7 nicht > > aktualisiert. << > > > > The import part is the second-last line: > > maven is already newest version (3.6.3-1). > > > > I'm not an expert in tricky installations and I see links from > > /usr/share/maven to /etc/maven and from /usr/bin to /etc/alternatives. > I'm > > scared to touch that by hand. > > > > That all said: Why does Mint not upgrade Maven to 3.8.6 ? Is there an > easy > > way to force that update? > > > > Kind regards and sorry for this newbie-questions > > F. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@maven.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@maven.apache.org > > > > >
