I have downloaded "mahout-distribution-0.9.tar.gz" and here is the content.
hadoop@solaris:~/mahout-distribution-0.9$ ls bin mahout-core-0.9.jar conf mahout-examples-0.9-job.jar docs mahout-examples-0.9.jar examples mahout-integration-0.9.jar lib mahout-math-0.9.jar LICENSE.txt NOTICE.txt mahout-core-0.9-job.jar README.txt Regards, Mahmood On Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:40 PM, LEQUEUX Sylvain <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, Regarding the Maven message you get, it seems that there is no pom.xml file in your mahout-distribution-0.9 directory. What file did you download? The one suffixed by -src.zip or -src.targ.gz ? Could you try a simple 'ls' (or 'dir' if you are using windows) to see which files you have ? Regards, Sylvain Lequeux Le Dimanche 23 février 2014 20h08, Mahmood Naderan <[email protected]> a écrit : Hi, I have followed the steps stated in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/BuildingMahout to install Mahout. However I get an error at "mvn install" hadoop@solaris:~/mahout-distribution-0.9$ mvn install [INFO] Scanning for projects... [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] BUILD FAILURE [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [INFO] Total time: 0.172 s [INFO] Finished at: 2014-02-23T21:59:13+03:30 [INFO] Final Memory: 4M/15M [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/export/home/hadoop/mahout-distribution-0.9). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -> [Help 1] [ERROR] [ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch. [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging. [ERROR] [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles: [ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException Did I missed any prerequisite? Regards, Mahmood
