Unable to Get Maven Installed

[Somnath Mallick]

Hi Everyone,

I tried installing Maven yesterday. But could not get it working. I followed the instruction given on the site but it doesn't work! When i run the command, this is what comes out:

C:\>mvn --version
'mvn' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

I checked the installtion process, and it was all about setting the environment variables. I did them but it didn't work. These are the environment variables that i set up:
M2 - E:\Portlet_Stuff\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin
M2_HOME - E:\Portlet_Stuff\apache-maven-2.2.1
PATH - %JAVA_HOME%\bin;E:\Portlet_Stuff\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin
I hope these are correct or am i doing something wrong here?

[Vijitha Kumara]

What you get when you type --> echo %M2_HOME% in command prompt?

[Somnath Mallick]

C:\>echo %M2_HOME%
E:\Portlet_Stuff\apache-maven-2.2.1

That seems to come out fine.

[Srikanth Kumar]

are you able to execute mvn --version from E:\Portlet_Stuff\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin directory? If yes then include the env variable M2_HOME in the PATH variable. after this you would be able to access mvn from any other directory.

[Somnath Mallick]

Thanks Vijitha and Srikanth. That solved the problem!!

[Mehdi Ben Larbi]

Hello,

I have the same problem but i can't execute mvn --version from my maven directory.
I don't know what's the problem ?

[Tim Holloway]

Mehdi Ben Larbi wrote:Hello,

I have the same problem but i can't execute mvn --version from my maven directory.
I don't know what's the problem ?

If you're doing it in Linux, the current directory isn't part of the default execution path. Try "./mvn"

Better yet, set your environment:

Windows: "PATH ADD %MAVEN_HOME%\bin

Linux: "export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH"

and it's really not a good idea to actually use any of the maven software directories as a current (execution) directory. If you have the proper execution path setup, you can (and should) execute Maven while in the project's root directory.

[Mehdi Ben Larbi]

Thanks,it's working now i had a bad version.