At first Maven failed with the following message:
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so: libXrender.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This was solved by running:
sudo apt-get install libxrender-dev
Caused by: java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle/jre/lib/amd64/xawt/libmawt.so: libXtst.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
So I had to install some other stuff:
sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev