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

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. -> [Help 1]

Can someone explain why it fails?

Please run it from the directory where POM.XML resides.

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

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

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.

• 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.

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

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=<yourJarFileName>.jar" "-DgroupId=<yourGroupID>" "-DartifactId=<yourArtifactId>" "-Dversion=<yourVersion>" "-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

    <dependency>
        <groupId><yourGroupID></groupId>
        <artifactId><yourArtifactId></artifactId>
        <version><yourVersion></version>
    </dependency>

and run

mvn clean
mvn compile 
mvn test 

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

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)

"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!

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.

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
            }
        }
    }
}

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

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.

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:

1. Make sure you have maven installed and have it in your PATH environment variable.

Howto:

1. Open windows powershell
2. mkdir MyWebApp
3. cd MyWebApp
4. mvn archetype:generate "-DgroupId=com.javan.dev" "-DartifactId=MyWebApp" "-DarchetypeArtifactId=maven-archetype-webapp" "-DinteractiveMode=false"

Note: This is tested only on windows 10 powershell