Does any maven command work? Like mvn compile ? My guess would be that the proxy configuration isn't correct. Talk to your network/firewall/proxy staff.
Also, executing mvn install -X would give you debug output. /Anders On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:45, Dipankar Das <dipankar.dipnil2...@gmail.com>wrote: > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dipankar Das <dipankar.dipnil2...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:31 AM > Subject: Urgent-kindly help in installing maven assembly plugin > To: bri...@apache.org, br...@apache.org > > > Dear Sir, > > I am using both of the following packages (apache-maven-2.2.1-bin > apache-maven-2.0.10-bin) but it gives the same error after executing the > *command *prompt. Please help me to cope up with this problem. I have > changed the proxy of settings.xml for this purpose but nothing has yet been > improved. > > <proxy> > <active>true</active> > <protocol>http</protocol> > <host>www.jadavpur.edu</host> > <port>8080</port> > </proxy> > * > command * > > C:\Documents and Settings\dipankar>mvn install assembly:assembly > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'assembly'. > [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central > [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could not be > retri > eved from repository: central due to an error: Error transferring file > [INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted > Downloading: > http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-assemb > ly-plugin/2.2-beta-2/maven-assembly-plugin-2.2-beta-2.pom<http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-assemb%0Aly-plugin/2.2-beta-2/maven-assembly-plugin-2.2-beta-2.pom> > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). > > > Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin > > Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin' not found in > reposi > tory: Unable to download the artifact from any repository > > org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:pom:2.2-beta-2 > > from the specified remote repositories: > central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2) > > for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin > > > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: 1 minute 26 seconds > [INFO] Finished at: Fri Nov 20 16:22:32 PST 2009 > [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/4M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >