Hi, > I am a first time user of maven and new to open source in general.
Congrats and welcome! > After running several different permutations and attempting to gain an > expected response from the command prompt using mvn –version the system > has proved to be not properly installed. The command mvn is not > recognised. I have a standard Windows 7 install with a fairly standard > AMD processor. Plenty of memory and disk space. > > Can anyone identify what might be causing this phenomenon on my machine? I assume you have installed Java on your machine...? Have you tried to logout and then login again before trying out "mvn --version"? Changing environment variables doesn't have any influence to already running programs... Regards Thorsten
