Apache Maven install “'mvn' not recognized as an internal or external command” after setting OS environmental variables?

Answer 1

I solved this by creating all under user variables (including the PATH variable). This is because the system variables do not "translate" the user variables. So if you only want to use maven in your account, you need to add another PATH variable as a user variable, not system variable.

Answer 2

I had this same problem, restart the command prompt and then check try mvn --version. It was probably set and working the whole time but command prompt needed to be restarted to be able to access the new system variable.

Answer 3

Make sure that you haven't renamed some folder which falls in the path of the M2 environment variable. In case you have, then change your M2 and/or M2_HOME accordingly.

It doesn't matter whether M2 or M2_HOME are System Variable or User Variables as long as you are logged in with the same user under whose scope the environment variables are.

Answer 4

Assuming you've created the variable path for maven as follows:

Under System path, click new then edit as follows:

Variable name: MAVEN_HOME

Variable value: C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.5.3\bin

Then continue with these instructions:

Under System Path, update variable path by clicking on edit and add:

C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.5.3\bin;

immediately after:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk\1.8.0_161\bin;

remember to add semi-colon ; after \bin as included above and then run your cmd prompt and type:

mvn -v 

Answer 5

Maven should be configured in the following way (can be user variables or system): - M2: %M2_HOME%\bin - M2_HOME: (your directory to Maven's root, not \bin) - PATH: %PATH%;%M2%

You should then be able to run mvn from the command prompt.

Answer 6

I was facing the same issue while executing the command mvn -version; however, I checked I had also set the mvn options in the environment variables setting, which gave me some Heap memory issue on the command prompt. So, I removed the maven options that I had set and then it worked fine for me.