Thanks Stephen, This is the resulting error message when I do as you suggested:
Error building POM (may not be this project's POM). Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' not found in repository: System is offline. org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:pom:2.0-alpha-3 for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:03 AM, Stephen Connolly < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It sounds like the issue is that you have something else forcing the > archetype version on you. > > can you check and see if > > mvn -o org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.0-alpha-3:create > > works for you? > > If that works for you then what's happening is that a pom is locking down > the version to a version that you have not downloaded yet. > > 2008/9/23 Eric Njogu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Hallo! > > > > I am using maven on openSUSE 11 to create an appfuse project with the > > following command: > > > > *mvn* archetype:create -DarchetypeGroupId=org.appfuse.archetypes > > -DarchetypeArtifactId=appfuse-basic-struts -DarchetypeVersion=2.0.2 > > -DgroupId=*com.oci.sample* -DartifactId=*timeEntry > > > > *The command works ok and retrieves the dependencies. Checking in > > ~/.m2/repository, I can find the files that have been downloaded. > > > > On creating a similar project with a different name but in offline mode, > I > > get the following error: > > > > The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin' does not > > exist > > or no valid version could be found > > > > Yet searching the repository shows the following: > > * > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> find .m2/ -name 'maven-archetype-plugin*'* > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin > > > > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.pom > > > > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.jar > > > > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.pom.sha1 > > > > > .m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-archetype-plugin/2.0-alpha-3/maven-archetype-plugin-2.0-alpha-3.jar.sha1 > > > > Please tell me how I can use the local repository and avoid going online. > > >
