Maven downloads have .lastUpdated as extension

Question

I have an Eclipse setup with m2eclipse and subversive. I have imported a maven2 project from svn. But I get the error message that a whole bunch of artifacts are missing (fo

Answer 1

Open your terminal, navigate to your Eclipse's project directory and run:

mvn install

If mvn install doesn't update your dependencies, then call it with a switch to force update:

mvn install -U

This is a much safer approach compared to tampering with maven files as you delete ".lastUpdated".