Maven, Access denied to: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2

Question

I have just downloaded last version of Maven.

And when i am trying to run

mvn archetype:generate

i get error message

Answer 1

it seem to work with maven 2 (reproduced the problem on 3 machines linux and windows with maven 3.05 and maven 3.1)

the problem occurs only for the repo1... urls. If you delete your local repository, all plugin downloads will work fine until the download of archetype catalog - "access denied"