Problems setting up Maven [duplicate]

Answer 1

All you should need to do to install and use maven:

1) Download maven 3. The ZIP should be fine. Install it in a known place; I use c:\tools\ as the parent directory but your mileage may vary.

2) Set your PATH to point to the bin directory in the installation directory. If Maven is in c:\tools\maven-3.0.3 (as it is on my system), you'd add c:\tools\maven-3.0.3\bin to PATH:

set PATH=%PATH%;c:\tools\maven-3.0.3

You may also want to set MVN_HOME:

set MVN_HOME=c:\tools\maven-3.0.3

3) start a new command shell (cmd.exe). mvn should work; if not, you've skipped something here or something's badly wrong in your configuration.

Answer 2

Do you have maven 2 also installed? I found one link in searching, see if it helps http://blogs.oracle.com/sreekanth/entry/java_lang_noclassdeffounderror_org_codehaus

and also double check your environment variables to make sure you have set all the variables mentioned in the doc.

For this error "mvn is not recognized as an internal or external command", add src/bin folder in 'path' environment variable.

Answer 3

This is a question from long ago but recently i encountered this problem. In my case it was because i had M2_HOME set from a previous installation from months ago. I just unset the variable and after that was good to go.

Answer 4

"mvn is not recognized as an internal or external command etc." means you haven't set your environment variable in windows. Read the whole http://maven.apache.org/download.html :-)

Answer 5

Your first problem is because you do not have maven in your PATH. The second problem is what I had. I had both Maven 2 and 3 on my computer and even though I removed Maven 2 links from my PATH, it was still interfering with my new Maven.

You need to remove or rename the system variable M2_HOME. 1. Right click My Computer -> Properties 2. Advanced system settings 3. Environment Variables 4. Rename or delete M2_HOME

Answer 6

I got the same error

In my case configuration which generate error

export M2_HOME="/home/ashoka/apache-maven-3.0.4/bin/"

PATH=$M2_HOME/bin:$PATH

Working configuration

export M2_HOME="/home/ashoka/apache-maven-3.0.4/"

PATH=$M2_HOME/bin:$PATH

Ashok Kumara