Maven: failed to install a third-party jar

Question

trying to install a third-party jar into my repository (alfresco-repository.jar). I use the following command:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=alfresco -DartifactId=alfresco -Dversion=3.1 -Dpackaging=jar "-Dfile=C:/Users/xxx/Development/WIP/Alfresco/common/jars/alfresco/3.1/lib/alfresco-repository-3.1.jar" -DgeneratePom=true -e

and I get the following exception (-e is used for more information):

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] Searching repository for plugin with prefix: 'install'.
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Invalid task '.1': you must specify a valid lifecycle phase, or a goal in
 the format plugin:goal or pluginGroupId:pluginArtifactId:pluginVersion:goal
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.BuildFailureException: Invalid task '.1': you must specify a va
lid lifecycle phase, or a goal in the format plugin:goal or pluginGroupId:plugin
ArtifactId:pluginVersion:goal
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.getMojoDescriptor
(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:1830)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.segmentTaskListBy
AggregationNeeds(DefaultLifecycleExecutor.java:462)
        at org.apache.maven.lifecycle.DefaultLifecycleExecutor.execute(DefaultLi
fecycleExecutor.java:175)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.doExecute(DefaultMaven.java:328)
        at org.apache.maven.DefaultMaven.execute(DefaultMaven.java:138)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.MavenCli.main(MavenCli.java:362)
        at org.apache.maven.cli.compat.CompatibleMain.main(CompatibleMain.java:6
0)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:315)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:255)
        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:430)

        at org.codehaus.classworlds.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:375)

Answer 1

The problem is that you use double quotes (") in the wrong places, and sometimes not at all. You must use double quotes around all your parameter values. For example ...

"-Dfile=C:/Users/xxx/Development/WIP/Alfresco/common/jars/alfresco/3.1/lib/alfresco-repository-3.1.jar"

... it should be...

-Dfile="C:/Users/xxx/Development/WIP/Alfresco/common/jars/alfresco/3.1/lib/alfresco-repository-3.1.jar"

... and ...

-Dversion=3.1

... it should be...

-Dversion="3.1"

, , . :

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId="alfresco" -DartifactId="alfresco" -Dversion="3.1" -Dpackaging="jar" -Dfile="C:/Users/xxx/Development/WIP/Alfresco/common/jars/alfresco/3.1/lib/alfresco-repository-3.1.jar" -DgeneratePom="true" -e

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