.m2 , settings.xml in Ubuntu

Question

In the windows environment you will have .m2 folder in C:\Users\user_name location and you will copy your settings.xml file to it in order to setup your proxy settings and nexus repository locations and etc.

So What I have to done on Ubuntu environment to get similar setup after installing maven on it.

Solution 1

As per Where is Maven Installed on Ubuntu it will first create your settings.xml on /usr/share/maven2/, then you can copy to your home folder as jens mentioned

$ cp /usr/share/maven3/conf/settings.xml ~/.m2/settings.xml

Solution 2

You can find your maven files here:

cd ~/.m2

Probably you need to copy settings.xml in your .m2 folder:

cp /usr/local/bin/apache-maven-2.2.1/conf/settings.xml .m2/

If no .m2 folder exists:

mkdir -p ~/.m2

Solution 3

.m2 directory on linux box usually would be $HOME/.m2

you could get the $HOME :

echo $HOME

or simply:

cd <enter>

to go to your home directory.

other information from maven site: http://maven.apache.org/download.html#Installation

Solution 4

Quoted from http://maven.apache.org/settings.html:

There are two locations where a settings.xml file may live:

The Maven install: $M2_HOME/conf/settings.xml

A user's install: ${user.home}/.m2/settings.xml

So, usually for a specific user you edit

/home/*username*/.m2/settings.xml

To set environment for all local users, you might think about changing the first path.

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Comments

[someone]

I couldn't find .m2 in home directory

[someone]

good suggestion will have a try :)

[The Cat]

If you run something like mvn clean on the command line it normally creates this folder for you. At least it does on windows anyway.

[Raj Rajeshwar Singh Rathore]

Was trying it out in a new system so it was not present after doing a fresh mvn clean it got created. Thanks.