I m facing problems while setting up Maven How do I solve this

Question

I’m installing Maven 3 on Windows 7 and when I execute the command mvn –version. I get the following error:

mvn is not recognized as an internal or external command 

I have installed all the environments and followed all the instructions as per the official Maven website.

Is there a way to solve this?

Answer 1

First of all check if you don't have an M2_HOME environment variable and then just follow the steps:

1) Start by downloading maven 3. Install it in a known directory like c:\tools

2) Next, set your PATH to point to the bin directory. If Maven is in c:\tools\maven-3.0.3 then add c:\tools\maven-3.0.3\bin to PATH:

set PATH=%PATH%;c:\tools\maven-3.0.3

set MVN_HOME=c:\tools\maven-3.0.3

3) Maven should work now; if not, then you've skipped something or it’s a problem with your configuration.