Installation Instructions don't work for Windows
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Key: MNGSITE-146
URL: https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNGSITE-146
Project: Maven Project Web Site
Issue Type: Bug
Environment: Windows 7
Reporter: Jim Goodwin
Priority: Minor
Step 3 of the Installation Instructions on this page
http://maven.apache.org/download.html say to add %M2_HOME%\bin directory to the
PATH environment variable. There is no %M2_HOME%\bin directory. For example,
when I extracted the downloaded archive, I extracted it to
c:\apache-maven-3.0.3. That is supposed to be path for M2_HOME, however there
is no \bin directory under that path. There is a \bin directory under
c:\apache-maven-3.0.3\apache-maven.
The end result is that running the mvn command results in "'mvn' is not
recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
Here is the content of my M2_HOME environment variable:
C:\apache-maven-3.0.3>echo %M2_HOME%
C:\apache-maven-3.0.3
Here is the content of my PATH environment variable:
C:\apache-maven-3.0.3>echo %PATH%
C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program
Files\IntelWiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program
Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\apache-ant-1.8.2\bin;C:\IBM\SDP\runtimes\base_v7\java\bin;C:\apache-maven-3.0.3\bin
Following step 7 of the instructions results in:
C:\apache-maven-3.0.3>mvn --version
'mvn' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or
batch file.
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