It sounds like the issue is that you have something else forcing the archetype version on you.
can you check and see if mvn -o org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-3:create works for you? If that works for you then what's happening is that a pom is locking down the version to a version that you have not downloaded yet. 2008/9/23 Eric Njogu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hallo! > > I am using maven on openSUSE 11 to create an appfuse project with the > following command: > > *mvn* archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.appfuse.archetypes > -DarchetypeArtifactId=appfuse-basic-struts -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.2 > -DgroupId=*com.oci.sample* -DartifactId=*timeEntry > > *The command works ok and retrieves the dependencies. Checking in > ~/.m2/repository, I can find the files that have been downloaded. > > On creating a similar project with a different name but in offline mode, I > get the following error: > > The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not > exist > or no valid version could be found > > Yet searching the repository shows the following: > * > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find .m2/ -name 'maven-archetype-plugin*'* > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.pom > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.jar > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.pom.sha1 > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.jar.sha1 > > Please tell me how I can use the local repository and avoid going online. >
