I suggest you read this to get started with Maven: http://www.sonatype.com/books/mvnex-book/reference/public-book.html
/Anders On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 17:28, edward cook <[email protected]> wrote: > I get the following error when tying to install Maven on Windows 7 > I have Java installed and am now trying to install Maven. > > C:\Users\user\Documents\apache-maven-2.2.1\bin>mvn clean install > [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] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > How can I resolve this error? > Where should the pom.xml file be located? > Should the pom.xml be generated on the binary extraction or during the > install? > > thanks, > Ed > > > >
