On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:41 PM, drew <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On a Ubuntu . > > Did he following: > > Downloaded the latest source tarball from: > http://people.apache.org/~devinhan/odftoolkit-release/odftoolkit-0.5-incubating-rc7/ > > Installed maven from the Ubuntu repos. > > Used the command: > mvn clean install > > output follows: > > Apache Maven 2.2.1 (rdebian-4) > Java version: 1.6.0_22 > Java home: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre > Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 > OS name: "linux" version: "2.6.38-11-generic" arch: "amd64" Family: > "unix" > [INFO] Scanning for projects... > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Building Maven Default Project > [INFO] task-segment: [clean, install] > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [ERROR] BUILD ERROR > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Cannot execute mojo: clean. It requires a project with an > existing pom.xml, but the build is not using one. > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > [INFO] Total time: < 1 second > [INFO] Finished at: Thu Dec 29 17:35:03 EST 2011 > [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/85M > [INFO] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > So - I'm sure this is a total noob question - pom.xml? Where would I > find that beast? >
Maven will look in the current working directory. So if you downloaded the candidate release and preserved the directory structure, you'll need to first cd to the odftoolkit-0.5-incubating directory. There should be a pom.xml there. Do mvn clean install from there. Since it looks like this is the first time you are building with Maven, it may take a few extra minutes to download the prerequisites. > Thanks for your time and patience, > No problem. Thanks for taking a look at the release candidate. > Drew >
