mvn command is not recognized as an internal or external command

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I am getting the mvn command not recognized as an internal or external command   I have setup the M2 HOME  JAVA HOME and added  M2 HOME  bin to the path variable  All are system variables  Still getting the same problem   Echoing the variables showing me the correct paths   Path to Maven  C  apache-maven-3 1 0 apache-maven-3 1 0   M2 HOME C  apache-maven-3 1 0 apache-maven-3 1 0   PATH  Other things C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 40 bin C  apache-maven-3 1 0 apache-maven-3 1 0 bin   and I have restarted my computer twice

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I faced this problem which kept me busy and buggy for quiet sometime. I was facing the problem (mvn not recognized) after setting up all required environment variables absolutely correctly. So by going by one of the response here, I switched to another version of maven and that fixed the problem.

Not being completely convinced why it worked this way, I then unzipped the problematic-version and updated env-vars which made it work.

The problem was when I initially extracted file from the zip, I modified the directory structure a bit. When you extract the zip, say apache-maven-X.x.x-bin.zip, it creates the folder structure as - "apache-maven-3.5.0-bin\apache-maven-3.5.0..."

In my first attempt I had modified this structure by deleting apache-maven-3.5.0-bin folder and bringing apache-maven-3.5.0 structure one folder up. This was causing the problem.

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I m using Maven 3  version  In my case everything was fine  But while adding the M2 HOME along with bin directory  I missed the     at the end  Previously it was like   M2 HOME  bin   which was throwing the mvn not recognizable error  After adding     at the end  mvn started working fine  I guess     acts as pointer to next folder    M2 HOME  bin   Should work  if you missed it

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Try  M2 HOME  bin    rather than

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For me it was not working since I was editing Path variable in  User variable  and adding it under  System variable  made it work  Hope it helps

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Try with echo  path    if this option doesn t show your M2 HOME and others variable values as directory path  then create  a new environment variable lets say PATH  and assign like below     PATH  JAVA HOME  bin  M2 HOME  bin  Add this in variable  path        PATH  Now open a new cmd  and try to echo  path  it will show all thh system path   Now you can check mvn -version it will solve the problem   if not try to restart the system  P S  as per doc  you should expend your zip distribution in C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation  But ideally it doen t matter

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Windows 10 -  Add new variable  quot M2 HOME quot  -    Update variable  quot path quot  -   Verify on cmd -

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Try setting the path of maven first through command prompt    setpath bat Open the cmd from the base window of the batch file   The rest maven commands can be used once path is set through cmd

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I faced similar problems  The article that helped me solve similar issues is by MKyong and is here      https   www mkyong com maven how-to-install-maven-in-windows      It is very important to include in maven s path the file that contains the  bin   boot    conf    lib  etc  file folders  For example  in my case  the correct path is   C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation maven apache-maven-3 5 0-bin apache-maven-3 5 0

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One most important and often overlooked aspect is the  MAVEN HOME  bin or  M2 HOME  bin should be the first thing in the  PATH  environment variable

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You have written three paths above  The first path  path to maven  should be pointing to the bin directory   Path to Maven  C  apache-maven-3 1 0 apache-maven-3 1 0 bin   Below are right  Above path should be corrected   M2 HOME C  apache-maven-3 1 0 apache-maven-3 1 0   PATH  Other things C  Program Files  x86  Java jdk1 7 0 40 bin C  apache-maven-3 1 0 apache-maven-3 1 0 bin

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Write the entire maven path into the Environment PATH variable   Example   C  Program Files apache-maven-3 2 3 bin    My PATH variable wasn t reading  M2  or  M2 HOME  bin properly  and therefore I wrote the full path into the PATH variable   Working

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In your Environement variable    new system variable   M2 HOME     Your mvn directroy  C         bin   new user variable   M2           M2 HOME   edit the CLASSPATH by adding  M2   finally open the cmd and write  path  CLASSPATH   enjoy

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I had the same problem  But just restarting my computer after setting up the Maven path resolved the issue   Variable Name  M2 Home Variable Value C  Apache apache-maven-3 3 9  Variable Name  Path Variable Value C  ProgramData Oracle Java javapath  SystemRoot  system32  SystemRoot   SystemRoot  System32 Wbem  SYSTEMROOT  System32 WindowsPowerShell v1 0   JAVA HOME  bin   M2 HOME  bin

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I have a stupid comment but someone else will have that issue   I was getting that same error when I was trying to put in   mvnw clean package and I found out that I had to change it a bit to   mvnw clean packageand I lived happily ever after

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This is worked for me   1-download apache-maven-3 3 9-bin tar gz file from https   maven apache org download cgi  2-copy the folder under c  programfiles  3-set variables as this    M2 HOME  -----   C  Program Files apache-maven-3 3 9   M2       -----   C  Program Files apache-maven-3 3 9  add Path variable to this     C  Program Files apache-maven-3 3 9 bin  then run the cmd as system admin  it worked

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Open Command prompt As  Run As a administrator   and try

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For Windows you need to do the following   Windows and type env  Open the edit environment panel  Click Environment Variables  In the system variables section  double click Path  In the dialog  create a System Variable under Path like below - gt  MVN HOME  C  Users lt username gt  Documents Project Software apache-maven-3 6 3 bin  Open a new command prompt and hit mvn  you should be able to now

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Are you trying to reference a user variable in system variables  Try echo  path  and the M2 should have been fully expanded to show the file path to your Maven directory  If it hasn t  then that s the problem   To fix it  you should create a user variable called PATH and add your  M2  reference into there

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I had this same error but my problem was I had the following   M2 HOME   C  Program Files  x86  Apache Software Foundation apache-maven-2 2 1   Which meant my PATH    M2 HOME  bin   etc      became C  Program Files  x86  Apache Software Foundation apache-maven-2 2 1  bin  i e  a semicolon was where it shouldn t be   Which I discovered because Michael Ferry suggested using  ECHO  PATH   to see what the actual PATH output was

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Right click on My Computer    Properties    Advanced system settings    System Properties window will get displayed Under Advanced    Environment Variables   Click on New to set Environment Variables  Variable name  JAVA HOME Variable value  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 121  Variable name  M2 Variable value   M2 HOME  bin  Variable name  M2 HOME Variable value   C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation apache-maven-3 5 0  Variable name   Path Variable value    M2 HOME  bin  Then click on Ok  ok  ok  Now restart you command prompt and check again with    mvn    version    to verify the mvn is running  you may restart your system also   It s Working       Enjoy     Thanks Sandeep Nehte

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I also was facing with the same issue still after adding path in environment variable and running it as a normal user in command prompt   Then I opened command prompt and tried running as  Run as Administrator  and I was able to download all the packages with respect to the project

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Restart your machine  after setting up your M2 HOME  pointing to you Maven basedir  NOT the bin dir  and PATH  PATH  M2 HOME  bin  PATH     Then do   dir  M2 HOME  bin mvn    If there is a  bat file  it should work under Windows  as it appears to be finding it  If there isn t one  then your paths are not right and you need to make sure your  PATH  variable really points to the correct path to Maven   Make sure you are using the proper slashes for your OS  Under Windows they re

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