hi all,
i m trying to createa  small project using maven2 under ubuntu Linux (5.10)

when i run this command

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mvn -e archetype:create
-DgroupId=mm.linux-DartifactId=testapp
-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp

i got following exception:

[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not
exist or no valid version could be found
[INFO]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin '
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist or no valid
version could be found
       at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1281)
       at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1517)
       at
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListByAggregationNeeds
(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:381)
       at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:135)
       at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:322)
       at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:115)
       at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:256)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
       at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(
NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
       at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(
DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
       at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
       at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java
:315)
       at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
       at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)
at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)
Caused by: org.apache.maven.plugin.version.PluginVersionNotFoundException:
The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not exist
or no valid version could be found
       at
org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion
(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:225)
       at
org.apache.maven.plugin.version.DefaultPluginVersionManager.resolvePluginVersion
(DefaultPluginVersionManager.java:87)
       at org.apache.maven.plugin.DefaultPluginManager.verifyPlugin(
DefaultPluginManager.java:158)
       at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.verifyPlugin(
DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1252)
       ... 14 more
[INFO] ---------------------------------------------------------------


everything seems to be working fine if i create my own directory and build
myself a pom.xml

can anyone tell me why?

i have set MAVEN_HOME and JAVA_HOME environment variables.... do i need to
set an addtional one?

thanks and regards
Marco

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