Maven- No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups

Question

I am trying to build a springboot project I built with Spring Tools Suite. I get the following error when I execute $mvn spring-boot:run

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[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 2.032 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-06-15T17:46:50-04:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 11M/123M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo] available from the repositories [local (/Users/admin/.m2/repository), central (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2)] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[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/NoPluginFoundForPrefixException`

Heres my pom.xml plugin

    <build>
    <plugins>
        <plugin>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <configuration>
                <arguments>
                    <argument>--spring.profiles.active=dev</argument>
                </arguments>
            </configuration>
        </plugin>
    </plugins>
</build>

I tried the jhipster plugin above and no change in the error.

Answer 1

If you are running the

mvn spring-boot:run

from the command line, make sure you are in the directory that contains the pom.xml file. Otherwise, you will run into the No plugin found for prefix 'spring-boot' in the current project and in the plugin groups error.