Maven assembly plugin fails to execute

Question

I'm getting this message after attempting to "mvn package". It seems like there's an issue with retrieving the google collections jar, but I'm not sure if that's the only problem.

[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.3:single (make-assembly) on project recommender:
  Execution make-assembly of goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.3:single failed:
  Plugin org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:2.3 or one of its dependencies could not be resolved:
  Failed to collect dependencies for org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-assembly-plugin:jar:2.3 ():
  Failed to read artifact descriptor for com.google.collections:google-collections:jar:1.0:
  Could not transfer artifact com.google.collections:google-collections:pom:1.0 from/to central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2): 
  Specified destination directory cannot be created: /Users/danquach/.m2/repository/com/google/collections/google-collections/1.0 -> [Help 1]

Answer 1

The original error should be a local problem:

Specified destination directory cannot be created:
/Users/danquach/.m2/repository/com/google/collections/google-collections/1.0

• Is your drive full?
• Do you have write access to this path?

You can try to create /Users/danquach/.m2/repository/com/google/collections and call maven again.