Keith, I am not familiar with the initial Maven setup procedures on the OS X platform, and I am not sure why the settings.xml is not created as part of the initial installation on this platform. Perhaps this blog post will help:
http://byteworksinc.blogspot.com/2008/01/summary-this-post-covers-setting-up.html You could also try to direct your question to the Maven User list; http://maven.apache.org/mail-lists.html. Regards, Eivind On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 3:22 AM, Keith Thomas <keith.tho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I am new to Pluto and new to Maven ... double trouble! > > The installation instructions start with: > > "Building Pluto with Maven 2 > If this is your first time building Pluto with Maven 2, edit > ~/.m2/settings.xml and > add the <pluginGroups> element: > . . . > . . ." > > I am running on OS X and Maven 2.0.6 is already installed on OS X. However; > I do not have a 'settings.xml' file to edit. Uh oh! > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Complete-newbie-stuck-at-the-first-hurdle-tp23418633p23418633.html > Sent from the Pluto - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >