I am loosing battle with maven...
I removed .m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-install-plugin.
Now when trying to install some 3rd party jar
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=jxl -DartifactId=jxl
-Dversion=2.5.9 -DgeneratePom
=true -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=jxl.jar
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'install'.
[INFO]
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[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO]
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[INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin
Reason: Error getting POM for
'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin' from the repository:
Unable to read local copy of me
tadata: Cannot read metadata from 'C:\Documents and
Settings\borutb\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-install-plugin\m
aven-metadata-central.xml': end tag name </head> must be the same as
start tag <link> from line 12 (position: TEXT seen .../planet
mirror.com/themes/standard/pm.css\' type=\'text/css\'>\n</head>...
@13:8)
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin:pom:LATEST
The install plugin is not installed.
In my settings.xml
<mirrors>
<mirror>
<id>planetmirror.com</id>
<name>planetmirror Mirror of
http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/</name>
<url>http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/maven2</url>
<mirrorOf>central</mirrorOf>
</mirror>
<mirror>
<mirrorOf>snapshots</mirrorOf>
<name>snapshots codehaus hack</name>
<id>snapshots codehaus hack</id>
<url>http://www.ibiblio.org/maven2/</url>
</mirror>
</mirrors>
What is going on?