Error: could not find or load the main class org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher on Windows 10

Question

I use windows 10 and I set the path as a mention in the instructions

• Install M2_HOME (E: \ softwares \ apache-maven-3.3.9)
• Install M2 (% M2_HOME% \ bin)
• Set the path to the system variable (% M2_HOME% \ bin)

When I run mvn -version, I get an error

C:\Users\zafaque>echo %M2_HOME% E:\softwares\apache-maven-3.3.9 C:\Users\zafaque>mvn --version Error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher 

Answer 1

I had the same problem as the zip archive source files from maven.apache website. I decided to use the zip archive binaries.