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

Answer 1

I was facing the same issue and then I closed and reopened cmd.exe to get mvn -vto propagate to my command prompt.

If cmd was open when you set the variables they will not be available in that session.

Answer 2

As others have done, creating new System variables M2 and M2_HOME solved the problem. Just making User variables M2 and M2_HOME on my Windows XP machine led to maven not being recognised from the command line. I then deleted the User variables, created copies as System variables and it all came to life.

This was apache-maven-3.0.4 with XP sp3. So the instructions in: http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi seem incorrect.

Answer 3

running maven to win 7

1. unzip apache-maven to directory C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.2.1
2. go to [Enviroment Variables] set [path] C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.2.1\bin;
3. open cmd and type C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.2.1> mvn -version

Answer 4

same problem.

and I solved it by:

1. add C:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.3.9\bin; to PATH
2. run cmd as administrator

and then mvn --version works.

Answer 5

Delete M2 and M2_HOME from user variables and move to system variables. That will solve the problem

Answer 6

A temporary work around would be to set the path from the terminal itself. Worked for me after that. Running as administrator also works. Both M2 and M2_HOME are already set as system variables in my case.