Maven Dependency Plugin

This page provides a space for users to contribute examples, errata, tips and other useful information about the Maven Dependency Plugin. Everybody is invited to share his/her thoughts about the plugin to help the community to improve it.

Note: Please do not use this page to report bugs or feature requests. Instead, please fill in an issue in the issue tracking system listed in the official plugin documentation.

Thanks!

– The Maven Team

Examples

Doing this and that:

FAQ

How do I ...?

Make the dependency plugin download a single dependency using the

goal?

The problem is that when you follow the plugin's instructions for the

goal, and provide the

parameter, the plugin fails (at least on Ubuntu 10.10 with Maven 3.0.2/3.0.3 and plugin version 2.1/2.2).

Example:

The work-aournd to this bug is to not use

and instead use

to specify the repository.