Newbie Help - the archetype:create task does not work for quickstart example

[Mike Smithson]

I downloaded and unzipped Maven-2.0.6 and tried to run the example from the
quickstart doc online. I ran the following:

Ø  mvn archetype:create –DgroupId=com.mycompany.com –DartifactId=my-app
–DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-archetype

I get the following:

 

 “The  plugin ‘org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin’ does not
exist or no valid version  could be found.

 

So, I tried changing –DarchetypeArtifactId to maven-archetype-plugin and got
the same message. Any help?

 

-- Mike --