Maven fails to find local repo artifact

Question

I am getting this:

Failed to execute goal on project boot: Could not resolve dependencies for project xxx:boot:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT: Could not find artifact xxx:xxx:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT in central (http://xxx/artifactory/all/) -> [Help 1]

That arifact is ONLY in my local repo. (Yes I can see it there) Maven is not picking up.

I see alot of ideas on SO but none of them have worked.

I have tried all of the sugestions on SO:

find ~/.m2/repository -name _maven.repositories -exec rm -v {} \;

find ~/.m2/repository -name _remote.repositories -exec rm -v {} \;

I deleted the repo and re-built (ie. mvn install) all the needed dependencies.

I added

<snapshots>
    <enabled>true</enabled>
    <updatePolicy>never</updatePolicy>
</snapshots>

to the POM

I tried mvn -o install

I am not sure what to try next! I am using mvn 3.3.9 on Ubuntu 16.04

Answer 1

Given your information, I would say you might have to run the full command (especially for jars built before the 2.5 version of Maven), which should be (replace with what's convenient): mvn install:install-file -Dfile=<path-to-file> -DgroupId=<group-id> \\ -DartifactId=<artifact-id> -Dversion=<version> -Dpackaging=<packaging>

See: https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html

Answer 2

Make sure that localRepository tag in your settings.xml actually points to the m2 repository location on your machine. You will find settings.xml in %M2_HOME%/conf directory

Answer 3

If you are trying to run a maven build for a child project which is dependent on another parallel level child project. Just run a maven build on the parent project once.It resolved the issue for me.

Answer 4

for me , it was a multimodule maven project and the parent module's version didn't match the versions of the child modules. And so apprently the project didn't install well