I fail installing maven on windows 7. What am i doing wrong?

Question

I try to install maven in windows 7 64 bit. This is the path to the bin folder.

C:\apache-maven-3.0.4\apache-maven\src\bin

I am doing this:

Create System variable MAVEN_HOME with value :C:\apache-maven-3.0.4\apache-maven\src
Append to Path variable %MAVEN_HOME%/bin

This is the last part of the path

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;%MAVEN_HOME%\bin

Edit: After doing this several times, when i get to cmd mvn -version i get this error message: JAVA_HOME not found in your environment, this is the first time i get it, till now i got only invalid command, batch file not found

This is the path for java:

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0\bin

I created JAVA_HOME with the value C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0
Append to the path variables: %JAVA_HOME%\bin

This is the last part of my path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;%MAVEN_HOME%\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\bin

I am still getting JAVA_HOME not found in your environment.

You can add `JAVA_HOME` the same way you added `MAVEN_HOME`. — Sotirios Delimanolis, Feb 18 '13 at 18:43

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 18 '13 at 18:43

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You need to set your JAVA_HOME to the home directory of your java installation folder (Assuming you already have JDK installed) .It should be something like C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_24

answered Feb 18 '13 at 18:43

Rohit

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I edited the question. I still can't figure out what i am missing – Jack Willson Feb 18 '13 at 18:47
You need to add a new environment variable .Name it as JAVA_HOME and value as C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0 – Rohit Feb 18 '13 at 18:50
This is exactly what i did :( – Jack Willson Feb 18 '13 at 18:51
Did you try again after opening a new command window? – Rohit Feb 18 '13 at 18:52
I was trying in the same command window. I opened a new one and now i get this: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher – Jack Willson Feb 18 '13 at 18:56
Now this is a separate issue .Refer to this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6305795/problems-setting-up-maven – Rohit Feb 18 '13 at 18:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 18 '13 at 19:03

Try to download apache-maven-..-bin.zip instead of the apache-maven-..-src.zip from the maven download page. The bin folder should be directly under c:\apache-maven-3.0.4 directory. Set the PATH variable accordingly. Of course, add JAVA_HOME environment variable too.

I fail installing maven on windows 7. What am i doing wrong?

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