Apache Maven install mvn not recognized as an internal or external command after setting OS environmental variables

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I ve followed the official installation instructions here for Windows XP  But sometimes when I execute mvn --version  I receive the error message       mvn  not recognized as an internal or external command   I ve even rebooted my machine a couple times  but the OS does not always recognize the maven command  But when I execute either  cd  M2 HOME   or cd  M2  it brings me to the installation directory  I ve also made sure to add the user variable M2 to the Path system variable   So  what gives

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I had similar issue on Windows 7  At first I setup M2  M2 HOME under User variable but when I echoed  PATH    I did not see maven bin directory listed under PATH  Then I setup M2  M2 HOME under system variable and it worked

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Add your Maven bin path to the System variable as given below  Go to the   gt  Enviornment Variables  gt  set Path D  apache-maven-3 2 1 bin   or if path is already set than append the path with      restart command and try

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A temporary work around would be to set the path from the terminal itself  Worked for me after that  Running as administrator also works  Both M2 and M2 HOME are already set as system variables in my case

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Had the same problem       mvn --version   worked but     maven --version   did not  I prefer using  mvn  over  maven  anyway so all is well  I also logout login in to be sure

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Looks like maven is not present in your PATH  Add the absolute maven home bin location to your PATH

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I solved this by creating all under user variables  including the PATH variable   This is because the system variables do not  translate  the user variables  So if you only want to use maven in your account  you need to add another PATH variable as a user variable  not system variable

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Installtion Steps   Download Binary zip archive or tar gz  Copy in the respective folder  Example - C  apache-maven-3 3 9 Add Variable  either user or system  M2 HOME   C  apache-maven-3 3 9 Add Variable  either user or system  MAVEN HOME   C  apache-maven-3 3 9 Update Variable PATH with C  apache-maven-3 3 9 bin Open CMD and Type mvn -v or mvn --version it should give the below response   C  Users XXXXXXX mvn --version Apache Maven 3 3 9  bb52d8502b132ec0a5a3f4c09453c07478323dc5  2015-11-10T22 11 4 7 05 30  Maven home  C  apache-maven-3 3 9 Java version  1 8 0 40  vendor  Oracle Corporation Java home  C  Program Files Java jdk1 8 0 40 jre Default locale  en US  platform encoding  Cp1252 OS name   windows 8   version   6 2   arch   amd64   family   dos     Make sure all variables have correct values using echo  M2 HOME  on CMD

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Maven should be configured in the following way  can be user variables or system    - M2   M2 HOME  bin  - M2 HOME   your directory to Maven s root  not  bin   - PATH   PATH   M2   You should then be able to run mvn from the command prompt

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Heres what i did wrong   1  make sure its NOT in a  C  Program Files  x86   it should be in  C  Program Files  i am not 100  if that could break it but you never know    2  There were 3 things i needed to do in my Environment Variables to get it to work   Create a user var like this    M2    M2 HOME    Create a user var like this  M2 HOME   C  Program Files Apache Software Foundation apache-maven-3 2 2  Edit the PATH to  What ever is already in here     M2

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I was facing the same issue and then I closed and reopened cmd exe  to get mvn -vto propagate to my command prompt   If cmd was open when you set the variables they will not be available in that session

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The accepted answer didn t help but simple step below fix it    Under system PATH  instead of using M2   use  M2 HOME  bin  as simple as that   N B my  M2 HOME  is pointing to  MV3 HOME  instead of actual absolute path bcos I have multiple version of maven installed and trying to be clever  switch between maven versions on the same box for different project

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As others have done  creating new System variables M2 and M2 HOME solved the problem   Just making User variables M2 and M2 HOME on my Windows XP machine led to maven not being recognised from the command line   I then deleted the User variables  created copies as System variables and it all came to life   This was apache-maven-3 0 4 with XP sp3  So the instructions in  http   maven apache org download cgi  seem incorrect

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Delete M2 and M2 HOME from user variables and move to system variables  That will solve the problem

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Make sure that you haven t renamed some folder which falls in the path of the M2 environment variable  In case you have  then change your M2 and or M2 HOME accordingly   It doesn t matter whether M2 or M2 HOME are System Variable or User Variables as long as you are logged in with the same user under whose scope the environment variables are

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I ve suffered from this problem and found that  for some reason or other  environment variables were simply not being parsed  executing cd  M2  told me that there was no folder  M2  in the current directory   In the end adding the explicit path to Maven s executable worked for me   C  apache-maven-3 1 0 bin

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running maven to win 7   unzip apache-maven to directory C  Program Files apache-maven-3 2 1 go to  Enviroment Variables  set  path  C  Program Files apache-maven-3 2 1 bin  open cmd and type C  Program Files apache-maven-3 2 1  mvn -version

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I had the same issue  there was no issue in my syntax  but when I moved the M2  M2 HOME  JAVA HOME environment variables from user to system it started working  Path variables stayed the same

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Assuming you ve created the variable path for maven as follows   Under System path  click new then edit as follows   Variable name  MAVEN HOME  Variable value  C  Program Files apache-maven-3 5 3 bin  Then continue with these instructions   Under System Path  update variable path by clicking on edit and add   C  Program Files apache-maven-3 5 3 bin    immediately after   C  Program Files Java jdk 1 8 0 161 bin    remember to add semi-colon   after  bin as included above and then run your cmd prompt and type   mvn -v

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Download apache-maven-3 3 9-bin zip file and extract it  Then set system variable M2 HOME   B  sql software apache-maven-3 3 9 or as appropriate Also set variable M2    M2 HOME  bin Open CMD and write mvn    I solved thank you

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I was facing the same issue while executing the command mvn -version  however  I checked I had also set the mvn options in the environment variables setting  which gave me some Heap memory issue on the command prompt  So  I removed the maven options that I had set and then it worked fine for me

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same problem   and I solved it by    add C  Program Files apache-maven-3 3 9 bin  to PATH run cmd as administrator   and then mvn --version works

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Running command prompt as Administrator solved the problem for me  I did not have to move M2 or M2 HOME under system variables

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I have got it solved by adding Path variable in user variables as  JAVA HOME  bin  M2 HOME  bin

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Just adding some more info that solved the problem for me    Make sure that the  M2  and  M2 HOME  variables doesn t have the semicolon     at the end  This should only be used if there are more than one location in that path  which is not the case  Also  make sure that in the  Path  variable  there aren t any spaces between the various paths  separated by the semicolon    Thanks to Pawan Valecha and Abhijeet Sawant for the tips

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Most probably you may have not installed maven correctly   use this to download maven  Download the latest  Binary tar gz  file It worked for me

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You need to set M2 and M2 HOME  I was facing same problem and issue was I had put one extra space in PATH variable after semicolon  Just removed space from path and it worked   Windows 7 machine

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I had this same problem  restart the command prompt and then check try mvn --version   It was probably set and working the whole time but command prompt needed to be restarted to be able to access the new system variable

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Way around would be moving M2 from user variables to system variables

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