------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bootstrapping Maven ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To bootstrap Maven you must have a ~/.m2/maven.properties file with the following entry: maven.repo.local = /path/to/your/local/repository Set the environment variable M2_HOME pointing to the dir where you want Maven2 installed. NOTE: presently, the directory {M2_HOME}/bin must be in your path: set PATH=%PATH%;%M2_HOME%\bin or export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin You can set the parameters passed to the Java VM when running Maven2 bootstrap, setting the environment variable MAVEN_OPTS, e.g. e.g. to run in offline mode, set MAVEN_OPTS=-Dmaven.online=false e.g. to build maven with debug info, set MAVEN_OPTS=-Dmaven.compiler.debug=true Then run m2-bootstrap-all.bat (in Windows) or m2-bootstrap-all.sh (in Unix) NOTE: You must run these instructions from this directory!