Can not download sources with Intellij Idea community 12.1.4 and maven 3.0.5

Question

I click \"download sources and documentation\" in Intellij Idea Community Edition 12.1.4 and get error that sources can not be downloaded. But when I try:

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Answer 1

"I had the same issue with IntelliJ IDEA 2016.1.3 and Maven 3.2.1. No solution mentioned here was working. In my case a newer Maven version fixed the issue. With Maven 3.3.9 IDEA can now download the sources."

anything's already in the former answers...

• download sources in your repo mvn dependency:sources
• F4 on the class you want to check the sources out
• locate the source jar in your local repository

maybe it is not a full IDE solution, but hope it solves your issue