Maven2 installation problem

[yiorgos]

Hello good people,
I wish you all a very happy new year!!!

now the unhappy(LOL). I am trying to install maven 2 in my Ubuntu 10.04 lts but i cannot.
I dont want it to install it with apt-get. See below what i get:

i wget this ......../dyn/closer.cgi/maven/binaries/apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz
then i tar xzvf apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz

and i end up with this:


gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
The same happens if i try to install other versions

Any opinions?

Thanks in advance
yiorgos

[Rubberman]

Try this: gunzip -c apache-maven-2.2.1-bin.tar.gz | tar -xvf -