AFAIK maven does not have an installer for Windows, you simply unzip it wherever you like, as explained here. However in many places there are references to a .m2 folder under the user folder (in ...

Jun 30, 2014 · It answers the title "Where is my m2 folder on Mac OS X Mavericks" (as well as the implicit question in the body of the post) by showing how to find it, just like two of the other answers.

May 20, 2013 · Learn how to specify an alternate location for the .m2 folder or settings.xml permanently in Maven.

Nov 13, 2012 · In the windows environment you will have .m2 folder in C:\Users\user_name location and you will copy your settings.xml file to it in order to setup your proxy settings and nexus repository locations and etc. So What I have to done on Ubuntu environment to get similar setup after installing maven on it.

Jul 1, 2016 · Will the .m2 folder be created automatically by Maven, or do you need to create it manually? What does the .m2/repository, contain and from where does it come?

Oct 26, 2016 · If both files exists, their contents gets merged, with the user-specific settings.xml being dominant. Tip: If you need to create user-specific settings from scratch, it’s easiest to copy the global settings from your Maven installation to your $ {user.home}/.m2 directory.

Oct 7, 2015 · It's perfectly safe to delete the folder .m2/repository as maven will re-download all the needed dependencies when needed except for your local projects. It there any other folder under .m2 taking space? For your local projects, maven will complain about not finding them. In that case, you simply need to re-compile them and install them by running mvn clean install in …

Nov 5, 2015 · Although I haven't specified my repository in my settings.xml file, it is the default that Maven set up for me -- ~/.m2/repository . Do I have to specify it even when it's the default?

Mar 17, 2016 · M2_REPO is a variable that defines where maven 2 repository is on your disk This means: add definition of M2_REPO to XML file that defines the eclipse workspace You can do the same manually if you want. That is what I personally did. Just go to Window/Preferences and then choose Java/Build Path/Classpath Variables.

Oct 28, 2014 · What's the correct Maven environment variable name: MAVEN_HOME, MVN_HOME or M2_HOME? I've found some details about MAVEN_HOME and M2_HOME here. But I also have seen MVN_HOME around.