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Living Together Harmoniously – IntelliJ and Maven

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I’m working on a client project and I ran into an issue when I needed to run a maven task from within IntelliJ. When I would run it, it would return the following error.

Error running Tests: No valid Maven installation found. Either set the home directory in the configuration dialog or set the M2_HOME environment variable on your system.

Which… really stinks. After setting my global env variable, playing with as .MacOSX file and then a bunch of other stuff for around 20 minutes … I realized it was a lot easier if I just checked the settings in the Maven settings in IntelliJ. So, thats what I did.

I selected this icon:

Then got this settings panel:

I overrode the maven home page and supplied my own maven home path as follows (see the path set above?):

[javasscript]

/usr/share/maven

[/javascript]

Note, your maven install directory may be different. As soon as I set this, I could run maven from within IntelliJ.

The sad fact of the matter is that I didn’t look here first. The error message supplied by IntelliJ sent me off into a rabbit hole. Thankfully it only cost me 20 minutes.

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  1. Manfred Moser says

    The better way to have access to M2_HOME on the Mac in command line and launched application is to set it in /etc/launchd.conf. Then you dont have to maintain it in intellij since it will pick it up nicely..

  2. Bhuvaneswari LakshmiNarayanan says

    I tried that but some how it still does not seem to recongnise it 🙁

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