Force re-download of release dependency using Maven

Question

I\'m working on a project with dependency X. X, in turn, depends on Y.

I used to explicitly include Y in my project\'s pom. However, it was not used and to make thin

Answer 1

Thanks to Ali Tokmen answer. I managed to force delete the specific local dependency with the following command:

mvn dependency:purge-local-repository -DmanualInclude=com.skyfish:utils

With this, it removes utils from my .m2/repository and it always re-download the utils JAR dependency when I run mvn clean install.