------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bootstrapping Maven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To bootstrap Maven you must have a ~/maven.properties file with the following entries: maven.home = /path/to/your/maven/installation maven.repo.local = /path/to/your/local/repository Once you have your ~/maven.properties setup then: java -jar mboot.jar Should do the trick to produce a working installation of Maven in ${maven.home}. NOTE: You must run these instructions from this directory! NOTE: If you want to run in offline mode where no downloading is done then add: 'maven.online = false' to your ~/maven.properties file.