title: Maven installing 3rd party Jar file
body: <p>I am using apache maven 3.1.1. I was trying to install a 3rd party Jar file in my local repository using the following command </p>
  
  <pre><code>mvn install:install-file -Dfile=&lt;path-to-file&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I am getting an error saying there is no Pom file in the current directory where the maven is ran from. According to Maven <a href="http://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html" rel="nofollow">install plug-in</a> if the jar file is created using Maven it will have POM xml in it (and in this case the POM is there in the jar file in a sub-dir of META-INF) and you will not need to supply the path to the POM file. </p>
  
  <p>Did I miss something here? </p>
  
  <p>Here is the error.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$ mvn install:install-file -Dfile=JDBM-3.0-alpha2.jar -ex
  [INFO] Error stacktraces are turned on.
  [INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] BUILD FAILURE
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Total time: 0.076s
  [INFO] Finished at: Fri Nov 29 22:23:58 EST 2013
  [INFO] Final Memory: 5M/147M
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this     directory (/home/ars/Downloads). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory. -&gt; [Help 1]
  org.apache.maven.lifecycle.MissingProjectException: The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory (/home/ars/Downloads). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory.
  atorg.apache.maven.lifecycle.internal.LifecycleStarter.execute(LifecycleStarter.java:89)
  at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:317)
  at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:152)
  at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.execute(MavenCli.java:555)
  at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.doMain(MavenCli.java:214)
  at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:158)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:601)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:289)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415)
  at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356)
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
  [ERROR] 
  [ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
  [ERROR] [Help 1]     http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MissingProjectException
  </code></pre>