maven install throw “error in opening zip file” only after the second try

Question

I try to run maven install on my project with some dependencies:

    log4j
    log4j

        

Answer 1

step1.

Clean your .m2\repository or delete your specific folders from the .m2\repository directory

step2.

run mvn clean install

step3.

be sure that your internet connection is working fine at the time of running this command, some times it fails due to connection problems.

Answer 2

It seems to be due to an incorrect connection url in your maven plugin. I was using a vpn connection earlier and hence, it had initialized it with that url which was not valid anymore.

rm -rf {PATH to .m2}/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/

This should fix it

Answer 3

I was facing the same issue just now. Changing maven compiler plugin version to 3.1 helped.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.1</version>
    <configuration>
      <source>1.8</source>
      <target>1.8</target>
    </configuration>
  </plugin>

Answer 4

In my case It was giving below error

error: error reading C:\Users\ppatel4.m2\repository\org\apache\xalan\xalan\2.7. 1\xalan-2.7.1.jar; error in opening zip file

Below are the steps I did to fix it.

1. Manually download xalan-2.7.1.jar
2. Remove all files of: ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/xalan/xalan/2.7.1/
3. Copy the jar which is manually downloaded into the location: ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/xalan/xalan/2.7.1/

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$ cp xalan-2.7.1.jar ~/.m2/repository/org/apache/xalan/xalan/2.7.1/

Its Done… Try to execute your mvn clean install command.