Question

I am new to Maven, I have to install maven plugin in eclipse. I am facing some issues in the same, as the inputs I am getting different sites are not working.
I have also gone through existing posts like this, which talks about running the command like :

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=c:\kaptcha-2.3.jar -DgroupId=com.google.code 
-DartifactId=kaptcha -Dversion=2.3 -Dpackaging=jar

but where do I run this command ??

This site talks about adding as parameter maven.repo.remote like :

maven -DartifactId=maven-eclipse-plugin-plugin -DgroupId=mevenide -Dversion=0.3.1 plugin:download

BUt where are these parameter set ??

Please can someone help me with pointing some good resource, which gives easy steps to install maven plugin in eclipse?

My eclipse version: indigo release, Java EE IDE.

Answer 1

• Start with Eclipse Indigo Java EE edition
• m2e is the maven integration for Eclipse. Install this plugin in the IDE.
• Import maven project if you have any or create a new one

mvn install:install-file is used to install maven artifacts in local repository, if it cannot be automatically downloaded and installed by maven. This is not normally required, but if you have to do this, you can go to Run as -> Run Configurations... and create an appropriate Maven Build configuration.

maveide is not maintained and not to be referred.