System Requirements
JDK:
1.5 or above (this is to execute Maven - it still allows you to build against 1.3 and prior JDK‘s).
Memory:
No minimum requirement.
Disk:
No minimum requirement. Approximately 100MB will be used for your local repository,
however this will vary depending on usage and can be removed and redownloaded at
any time.
Operating System:
No minimum requirement. On Windows, Windows NT and above or Cygwin is required for
the startup scripts. Tested on Windows XP, Fedora Core and Mac OS X.
Installing Maven
1) Unpack the archive where you would like to store the binaries, eg:
Unix-based Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X)
tar zxvf apache-maven-3.x.y.tar.gz
Windows 2000/XP
unzip apache-maven-3.x.y.zip
2) A directory called "apache-maven-3.x.y" will be created.
3) Add the bin directory to your PATH, eg:
Unix-based Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X)
export PATH=/usr/local/apache-maven-3.x.y/bin:$PATH
Windows 2000/XP
set PATH="c:\program files\apache-maven-3.x.y\bin";%PATH%
4) Make sure JAVA_HOME is set to the location of your JDK
5) Run "mvn --version" to verify that it is correctly installed.
原文：http://blog.csdn.net/michael10001/article/details/24518577