When you try to install maven using apt-get it will not install the latest release. Even after adding maven3 ppa, apt-get couldnt find it. Easiest solution for this was to download the binary and give the path. I thought it could be useful to beginners.

Go to link
https://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

and download the latest build for maven. Now it is 3.3.9
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/apache-maven

copy the downloaded file to the location

sudo cp ~/Downloads/apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz /usr/local/apache-maven

Next go to the location of the copied folder and untar the package

cd /usr/local/apache-maven sudo tar -xzvf apache-maven-3.3.9-bin.tar.gz

Then add these line to the profile of bash using vim or  any editor

Then reload the profile changes

source ~/.profile

Then type the version and see

mvn -v

Done