Many thanks to Daniel Or and Mykel Alvis. Both of you guys hit the nail on the head! It was the spaces in the path.
Though I still cant just type "maven -v" at the command prompt... I have to use the trick shown me by Patrick Roumanoff (thanks Pat, been using computers for many many moons... never knew I could drag drop into command line!). But! If I put in "D:\maven-2.0-alpha-1\bin\m2.bat maven -v" I get the version number. -----Original Message----- From: Mykel Alvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:04 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Need of serious help JAVA_HOME should be set to the root of your JDK distro. In my case, it's C:\j2sdk1.4.2_06 , but you're using a different JDK and that's OK. MAVEN_HOME should be set to where maven was installed. I noted some issues at one point when I installed maven into a path that had a space in it. I solved this by always installing maven into c:\maven-1.0.2 %MAVEN_HOME%\bin should be put into your PATH After installing maven, you should check the integrity of your repository. If it failed to build for some reason, then you'll need to follow the directions on the website for initializing your repository. Finally, you should be able to open a command prompt and execute maven -v and get some version information. On 4/13/05, Dave The Gerb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you guys for the rapid responses! Wow! > > For the record.... yes, I knew it was command line, yes I had set my > variables (both in 1.0.2 and in 2). > > Patrick.. you threw me buddy... Ive messed with computers (yes, command line > too) since DOS (pre windows). Until today, I never knew I could drag/drop > into it though! Wow! > > Ok, onto the important stuff. Once I did that, it says the JAVA_HOME is set > wrong. But, it IS where Java is installed. Do I point it to the jdk1.5.0_02 > folder or the jdk1.5.0_02\bin? I have it set to jdk1.5.0_02 folder only. > > Will be trying jdk1.5.0_02\bin while waiting for responses. Thank you all! > > Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Roumanoff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 7:57 PM > To: Maven Users List > Subject: RE: Need of serious help > > run the maven.bat command from the command line > then you'll be able to see the message. > > to achieve that follow the instructions: > > click on the start menu then choose "Run..." > enter "cmd" and click OK > The black box is called "The Command Line" > drag an drop from Explorer to "The Command Line" the maven.bat script > be sure to click again in "The Command Line" box to give it the focus > then hit enter -->> maven is running > > cheers, > > Patrick > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Dave "The Gerb" [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, 14 April 2005 09:26 > > To: 'Maven Users List' > > Subject: Need of serious help > > > > > > > > Big newbie here gang. > > > > I tried to get Maven 1.0.2 to run on here (here = win2000) > > but never to any > > avail. First, Id click on maven.bat and a dos window would > > pop up and close > > so fast could never read any messages. After some website > > reading (further), > > tweaking, variable editing it would at least stay up long > > enough to see the > > maven logo and a bunch of other loading stuff before it would vanish. > > > > I finally gave up and hoped for a new version since no one > > else seemed to > > have the same problem (according to the mailing list). > > > > The new version arrived! Yea! But Im back to where it comes > > and goes faster > > than I can read. > > > > I don't know maven, I don't know java but I am very > > interested in java and > > need maven in order to run something else I need (which by > > now I cant even > > recall what that was.... I just know I need maven first). > > > > Anyone who is EXTREMELY patient? 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