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javamaven-2dependenciesmaven-plugin

Why can't maven find a plugin?

If I type the command:

mvn dependency:list

The docs suggest that I'll get a list of my project's dependencies. Instead though, I get this:

[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'dependency'.
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] -----------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Required goal not found: dependency:list

Call me a hopeful naive, but I had hoped maven would download any plugins it didn't have. Does anyone know what might be leading to this error? Does anyone know where maven stores information about what plugins it has installed, and where they're stored in the maven repository?

Solution

  • To answer my own question, thanks to some comments that were made on it, the settings.xml file had been customized and did not list the central maven repository.

    Oops.