On Thu, 2011-12-29 at 18:00 -0500, Rob Weir wrote: > 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.
Yup did that > There should be a pom.xml there. nope there isn't. Thanks, //drew
