maven-dependency-plugin (goals “copy-dependencies”, “unpack”) is not supported by m2e

Question

I have a fairly simple Maven project:

    
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Answer 1

I had the same problem when trying to load Hadoop project in eclipse. I tried the solutions above, and I believe it might have worked in Eclipse Kepler... not even sure anymore (tried too many things).

With all the problems I was having, I decided to move on to Eclipse Luna, and the solutions above did not work for me.

There was another post that recommended changing the ... tag to package. I started doing that, and it would "clear" the errors... However, I start to think that the changes would bite me later - I am not an expert on Maven.

Fortunately, I found out how to remove all the errors. Go to Window->Preferences->Maven-> Error/Warnings and change "Plugin execution not covered by lifecycle..." option to "Ignore". Hope it helps.