I am using apache maven 3.1.1. I was trying to install a 3rd party Jar file in my local repository using the following command
mvn install:install-file -Dfile=<path-to-file> However, I am getting an error saying there is no Pom file in the current directory where the maven is ran from. According to Maven install plug-in if the jar file is created using Maven it will have POM xml in it (and in this case the POM is there in the jar file in a sub-dir of META-INF) and you will not need to supply the path to the POM file.
Did I miss something here?
Here is the error.
$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile=JDBM-3.0-alpha2.jar -ex [INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on. [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.076s [INFO] Finished at: Fri Nov 29 22:23:58 EST 2013 [INFO] Final Memory: 5M/147M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/home/ars/Downloads). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help 1] org.apache.maven.lifecycle.MissingProjectException: The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/home/ars/Downloads). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. atorg.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:89) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:317) at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:152) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:555) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:214) at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:158) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356) [ERROR] [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException