May 21, 2011 · AFAIK maven does not have an installer for Windows, you simply unzip it wherever you like, as explained here. However in many places there are references to a .m2 folder under the user folder (in ...

Jun 30, 2014 · It answers the title "Where is my m2 folder on Mac OS X Mavericks" (as well as the implicit question in the body of the post) by showing how to find it, just like two of the other answers.

Oct 26, 2016 · If both files exists, their contents gets merged, with the user-specific settings.xml being dominant. Tip: If you need to create user-specific settings from scratch, it’s easiest to copy the global settings from your Maven installation to your $ {user.home}/.m2 directory.

May 20, 2013 · Learn how to specify an alternate location for the .m2 folder or settings.xml permanently in Maven.

May 26, 2020 · Short answer is yes. .m2 folder / local repository of maven is where all your project artifacts, dependency jars are stored locally when you execute maven command (for eg. mvn install). You can have a look at the various build life cycles of maven from Maven Build Lifecycle For more details on local Repository you can read Introduction to Repositories Since you have …

Oct 28, 2014 · What's the correct Maven environment variable name: MAVEN_HOME, MVN_HOME or M2_HOME? I've found some details about MAVEN_HOME and M2_HOME here. But I also have seen MVN_HOME around.

Oct 7, 2015 · It's perfectly safe to delete the folder .m2/repository as maven will re-download all the needed dependencies when needed except for your local projects. It there any other folder under .m2 taking space? For your local projects, maven will complain about not finding them. In that case, you simply need to re-compile them and install them by running mvn clean install in …

Jul 28, 2020 · .m2 folder is the default folder used by maven to store its: settings.xml file which specifies properties, like the central repository to download your dependencies, the location of the so-called localRepository by default, the localRepository in which maven stores all the dependencies your project might need to run.

Jul 15, 2017 · If you are struggling to get the iii) step working, in the system path, just add C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.x.y\bin (Replacing x and y with your version number) to your path variable instead of using the M2_HOME variable. This isn't ideal, as you will now have to change two variables if your path updates or changes, but it's a quick fix.

Nov 9, 2015 · I was instructed to delete the .m2 folder as I had a problem with one of the project dependencies but now when I tried to Maven > Clean, then Maven > Install the application I get the following err...