Error The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory after executing maven command

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I have a pom xml in C  Users AArmijos Desktop Factura Electronica MIyT componentes-1 0 4 sources pom xml and I executed   mvn install install-file -DgroupId es mityc jumbo adsi -DartifactId xmlsec-1 4 2-ADSI -Dversion 1 0 -Dpackaging jar -Dfile C  Users AArmijos Desktop Factura Electronica MIyT componentes-1 0 4 core xmlsec-1 4 2-ADSI-1 0 jar   however it returned the error below    INFO  Scanning for projects     INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  BUILD FAILURE  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  INFO  Total time  0 310s  INFO  Finished at  Thu May 02 16 48 29 COT 2013  INFO  Final Memory  2M 15M  INFO  ------------------------------------------------------------------------  ERROR  The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM  in this directory  C  Users AArmijos   Please verify you invoked Maven from the  correct directory  - gt   Help 1    Can someone explain why it fails

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On Windows  I got this error when running under a non-administrator command prompt  When I ran this as administrator  the error went away

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In my case  its because I copied pasted the command from the browser and it turned out that the dash was not the ASCII dash  just delete and type the dash again   http   www toptip ca 2017 04 maven-most-weird-error-causing-failure html

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Just watch out for any spaces or errors in your arguments command  The mvn error message may not be so descriptive but I have realised  usually spaces omissions can also cause that error

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The goal you specified requires a project to execute   The answer is in your question  I faced the same issue  Run the  mvn command  within the project folder  Also make sure sure its a maven configured project and hence contains the  POM xml  file and you should be good to go

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Please run it from the directory where POM XML resides

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On Windows when you are using PowerShell you have to enclose all parameters with quotes  So if you want to create a maven webapp archetype you would do as follows  Prerequisites   Make sure you have maven installed and have it in your PATH environment variable   Howto   Open windows powershell mkdir MyWebApp cd MyWebApp mvn archetype generate  quot -DgroupId com javan dev quot   quot -DartifactId MyWebApp quot   quot -DarchetypeArtifactId maven-archetype-webapp quot   quot -DinteractiveMode false quot    Note  This is tested only on windows 10 powershell

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Check for the name of the file  i e pom xml file is spelled correctly with proper file extension  xml   Example for this error are  pom ml pm xl

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1 create a lib folder in your project file    2 copy your jarFiles to the lib folder   3 right click on to your jarFile go to build path Add to build path  now your jar file is part of your refrerenced libraries    4 open command prompt and navigate to your project directory and write  mvn install  install-file  -Dfile  lt yourJarFileName gt  jar   -DgroupId  lt yourGroupID gt    -DartifactId  lt yourArtifactId gt    -Dversion  lt yourVersion gt    -Dpackaging jar     6 Rebuild your local repository index by opening in eclipse- go to window show view other maven maven Repositories  Right click on local Repositores and hit  RebuildIndex   5 open your pom xml file and add your dependency       lt dependency gt           lt groupId gt  lt yourGroupID gt  lt  groupId gt           lt artifactId gt  lt yourArtifactId gt  lt  artifactId gt           lt version gt  lt yourVersion gt  lt  version gt       lt  dependency gt    and run  mvn clean mvn compile  mvn test

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The execution of maven command required pom xml file that contains information about the project and configuration details used by Maven to build the project  It contains default values for most projects  Make sure that porject should contains pom xml at the root level

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I got this error suddenly in Netbeans  but it worked from the command line  and it turns out some other program had changed the default directory of the command prompt   And because Netbeans runs  cmd  c  when invoking maven  it starts in an incorrect directory   Check out in Regedit the value for   HKEY CURRENT USER Software Microsoft Command Processor Autorun     If it has been set  you probably should remove it to fix the problem   1    I landed here when trying to resolve this issue  might not be 100  applicable to the current question - but might help others    1  Changing default startup directory for command prompt in Windows 7

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This link helped  https   stackoverflow com a 11199865 1307104  I edit my command by adding quotes for every parameter like this  mvn install install-file  -DgroupId org mozilla   -DartifactId jss   -Dversion 4 2 5   -Dpackaging jar   -Dfile C  Users AArmijos workspace componentes-1 0 4 deps jss-4 2 5 jar    It s worked

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There may be a problem with Maven path configuration  if you used unix-like Operator System  step 1  create new file in path    bash profile JAVA HOME  Library Java JavaVirtualMachines jdk1 8 0 151 jdk Contents Home CLASSPAHT    JAVA HOME lib dt jar  JAVA HOME lib tools jar PATH  JAVA HOME bin  PATH  export JAVA HOME export CLASSPATH export PATH  step 2  shell run source    bash profile  OR  modify zsh config file add new line  source    bash profile

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For any of those who are experiencing this on Windows and none of the above worked  try running this from cmd exe  Executing these commands via PowerShell caused the install to fail each time

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Add the Jenkinsfile where the pom xml file has present  Provide the directory path on dir  project-dir     Ex   node        withMaven maven  maven              stage  Checkout                 git url   http   xxxxxxx gitlab root XXX git   credentialsId   xxxxx   branch   xxx                     stage  Build                    dir  project-dir                       sh  mvn clean install                   def pom   readMavenPom file  pom xml                   print pom version                 env version   pom version

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Adding one more answer for Windows users  If none of this solves the problems   Do not add space before or after    -DgroupId  com company module   Wrong   Watch the space after the equal to  -DgroupId com company module   Right    Its better to put everything inside double quotes  like  -DgroupId com     This will give you exact error rather than some random error   Weird that   maven does not even care to mention this in the documentation

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Changing mvn clean to mvn clean --file   pom fixed this issue for me

[maven-3] Error "The goal you specified requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory" after executing maven command

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