title: Maven in Ubuntu 10.4 -
body: <p>This is my first time asking for help in a public forum. 
  So anyways Microsoft Windows has been my comfort zone as a development environment,recently I have been chucked into a linux environment at work, I seem to have got the hang of things, but when I tried to set up Maven2 I ran into some issues, I will get to the issue part later, but this is how I set up maven </p>
  
  <p>Extracted maven to <code>/usr/local/maven/apache-maven-2.2.1</code></p>
  
  <p>Created a symbolic link to '/usr/bin' using following command </p>
  
  <p><code>sudo ln -s /usr/local/maven/apache-maven-2.2.1 /usr/bin/mvn</code></p>
  
  <p>when I <code>mvn --version</code></p>
  
  <p>Output :</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Apache Maven 2.2.1 (r801777; 2009-08-07 00:46:01+0530) Java version:
    1.7.0_25 Java home: /usr/local/java/jdk1.7.0_25/jre Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8 OS name: "linux" version:
    "2.6.32-24-generic" arch: "i386" Family: "unix"</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>but when I try to do </p>
  
  <p><code>mvn clean</code></p>
  
  <p>Output : </p>
  
  <pre><code>[INFO] Scanning for projects...
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Building Maven Default Project
  [INFO]    task-segment: [clean]
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
  [WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Error transferring file: repo1.maven.org
  Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/2.2/maven-clean-plugin-2.2.pom
  [WARNING] Unable to get resource 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:pom:2.2' from repository central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): Error transferring file: repo1.maven.org
  
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
  [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).
  </code></pre>