Nope, I cant just type anything, I must put in the full path... or drag/drop THEN append the command afterwards.
-----Original Message----- From: baleineca [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:54 PM To: Maven Users List Subject: Re: Need of serious help (almost there!) I am not yet using maven 2 (still on maven 1.0.2), so I am not sure 100% but if maven 2 bin is in your windows path, it seems you should try typing "m2 -v" instead of "maven -v". Dave "The Gerb" wrote: > 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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