There is some Maven-ish problem in examples. It wants a "jcommon" thing that is not there, at least on my two laptops.
[INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Building Mahout Examples [INFO] task-segment: [install] [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] [resources:resources {execution: default-resources}] [INFO] Using 'UTF-8' encoding to copy filtered resources. [INFO] Copying 3 resources [INFO] snapshot org.apache.mahout:mahout-core:0.6-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from apache.snapshots [INFO] snapshot org.apache.mahout:mahout-math:0.6-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from apache.snapshots [INFO] snapshot org.apache.mahout:mahout-integration:0.6-SNAPSHOT: checking for updates from apache.snapshots Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/jfree/jcommon/1.0.16/jcommon-1.0.16.pom [INFO] Unable to find resource 'jfree:jcommon:pom:1.0.16' in repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) [INFO] [compiler:compile {execution: default-compile}] -- Lance Norskog goks...@gmail.com