You need to create settings.xml yourself. Maven doesn't create it for you. Could it be that you need to configure a web proxy for Maven to use to access the Internet (and central)?
/Anders On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 11:21, Azzouni, Rym <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > I have installed Maven2 in a virtual machine Linux redhat , > it seems ok : > [rym@localhost ~]$ mvn -version > Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-06 15:16:01-0400) > Java version: 1.6.0_24 > Java home: /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/jre > Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 > OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.18-194.el5" arch: "i386" Family: "unix" > > BUT when I use the cmd : archetype:generate the result is : > [rym@localhost ~]$ mvn archetype:generate > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. > [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central > [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could not > be retrieved from repository: central due to an error: Error > transferring file: repo1.maven.org > [INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does > not exist or no valid version could be found > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 1 second > [INFO] Finished at: Thu Apr 28 08:57:59 EDT 2011 > [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/15M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Also I can't find the file setting.xml in the directory .m2 , .m2 is > empty!!!!! > > What is the problem? Please help me. > > > Best regards > Rym Azzouni >
