Can anyone help me resolve this problem?
It is a freshly unzipped copy of 2.0.6 with an empty repository. Any idea why it cannot find the archetype plugin? Is there a way of completely removing and re-installing maven? C:\Project>mvn archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.appfuse -DarchetypeArtifactId=appfuse-basic-struts -DremoteRepositories=http://static.appfuse.org/repository -DarchetypeVersion=2.0-m4 -DgroupId=com.rave.chester -DartifactId=chester [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'archetype'. [INFO] org.apache.maven.plugins: checking for updates from central [WARNING] repository metadata for: 'org.apache.maven.plugins' could not be retrieved from repository: central due to an error: Error transferring file [INFO] Repository 'central' will be blacklisted [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] BUILD ERROR [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could be found [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 3 seconds [INFO] Finished at: Sat May 12 23:38:26 EST 2007 [INFO] Final Memory: 1M/2M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
