How to uninstall / override previous Maven version on OS X Leopard?

[Unnsse Khan]

Hello there,

I installed Maven (by building the source) awhile ago on my OS X Leopard machine.

When I check version information, this is the feedback, I receive:

$ mvn --version
Maven version: 2.0.6

When I check where its located, this is what is outputted:

$ which mvn
/usr/bin/mvn

$ ls -al /usr/bin/mvn
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  24 Nov 21 20:43 /usr/bin/mvn -> /usr/share/maven/bin/mvn

However, I recently installed the 2.10 binary (via zip extension) on my machine and set a
MAVEN_HOME global system environmental variable and also appended it to my PATH in .bash_profile.
When I run the $MAVEN_HOME/bin/mvn script from the command line, this is what is outputted:

$ $MAVEN_HOME/bin/mvn --version
Apache Maven 2.1.0 (r755702; 2009-03-18 12:10:27-0700)
Java version: 1.5.0_16
Java home: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: MacRoman
OS name: "mac os x" version: "10.5.6" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"

How do I uninstall / override the Maven 2.0.6 version and replace it with Maven 2.1.0 (which is set to my $MAVEN_HOME)?
This is what my ~/.bash_profile config looks like:

. ~/.profile
export PS1="\u@\h:\w$ "
export JAVA_HOME="/System/Library/frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home";
export MAVEN_HOME="/Users/untz/DevTools/Java/maven/apache-maven-2.1.0";
export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PS1:$PATH;

Happy programming,

Unnsse

[Unnsse Khan]

Okay, I got the Apache Maven 2.1.0 working as the correct one by placing $MAVEN_HOME before /usr/bin in my PATH as follows:

export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH:/usr/local/sbin:$JAVA_HOME/bin:/opt/local/bin:$PS1:$PATH;

The thing I dislike about this approach is that the previous Maven (2.0.6) version still exists on my machine.

Prior to Maven 2.1.0, I had installed the 2.0.6 version by downloading the tar.gz (tarball) and then building Maven 2.0.6 by scratch which placed the mvn script inside my /usr/bin directory.

Is there a way to truly un-install / wipe the previous mvn (2.06) version from my system?

Many, many thanks!

[Martijn Verburg]

A layman's guess would be:

1.) Remove the directory that contains maven 2.0.6
2.) Remove the /usr/bin/mvn