title: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin' not found in repository
body: <p>When I try to build/clean/install with maven I get the error below. Maven 2 worked but didn't download a package into the <code>.m2/repository/</code> so I tried uninstalling maven 2 (<code>sudo apt-get remove maven2</code>) and reinstalling (<code>sudo apt-get install maven2</code>), setting the local repository to a map of my choosing in <code>settings.xml</code> of the maven map but I must've done something wrong. Anyone that can help me out?</p>
  
  <pre>
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
  
  Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin
  
  Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin' not found in repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
  
    org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.3
  
  from the specified remote repositories:
    central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
  
   for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin
  </pre>
  
  <p>This is my POM.xml</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"&gt;
    &lt;modelVersion&gt;4.0.0&lt;/modelVersion&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;be.ugent.sop.p404&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;P404&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;0.0.1-SNAPSHOT&lt;/version&gt;
    &lt;packaging&gt;pom&lt;/packaging&gt;
    &lt;name&gt;P404&lt;/name&gt;
  
  
      &lt;build&gt;
            &lt;plugins&gt;
                  &lt;!-- Set to compile using JDK 7 --&gt;
                  &lt;plugin&gt;
                        &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-compiler-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                        &lt;version&gt;3.1&lt;/version&gt;
                        &lt;configuration&gt;
                      &lt;source&gt;1.7&lt;/source&gt;
                      &lt;target&gt;1.7&lt;/target&gt;
                        &lt;/configuration&gt;
                  &lt;/plugin&gt;
                        &lt;!-- Avoid war plugin complaining missing web.xml --&gt;
                        &lt;plugin&gt;
                          &lt;artifactId&gt;maven-war-plugin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
                          &lt;version&gt;2.3&lt;/version&gt;
                          &lt;configuration&gt;
                            &lt;failOnMissingWebXml&gt;false&lt;/failOnMissingWebXml&gt;
                          &lt;/configuration&gt;
                        &lt;/plugin&gt;
              &lt;/plugins&gt;
        &lt;/build&gt;
  
      &lt;modules&gt;
          &lt;module&gt;P404WAR&lt;/module&gt;
          &lt;module&gt;P404EJB&lt;/module&gt;
          &lt;module&gt;P404EAR&lt;/module&gt;
      &lt;/modules&gt;
  &lt;/project&gt;
  </code></pre>