How to manually install an artifact in Maven 2?

maven-2 installation
liangzan picture liangzan · Jan 14, 2009 · Viewed 162.2k times · Source

I've encountered some errors when I tried to install an artifact manually with Maven 2. I wanted to install a jar from a local directory with the command

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=jta-1.0.1B.jar

But Maven gave a build error which reads like:

Invalid task '.01B.jar': you must
specify a valid lifecycle phase, or a
goal in the format plugin:goal or
pluginGroupId:pluginArtifactId:pluginVersion:goal

Is there a mistake with my command?

Answer

Romain Linsolas picture Romain Linsolas · Jan 14, 2009

You need to indicate the groupId, the artifactId and the version for your artifact:

mvn install:install-file \
  -DgroupId=javax.transaction \
  -DartifactId=jta \
  -Dpackaging=jar \
  -Dversion=1.0.1B \
  -Dfile=jta-1.0.1B.jar \
  -DgeneratePom=true

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