To work with Maven you need to set the following environment variables: * JAVA_HOME Set it to the base directory of your java installation. * MAVEN_HOME Set it to ``%%DATADIR%%''. Then, you should initialize your repository with: %%DATADIR%%/bin/install_repo.sh ~/.maven/repository If you are behind a proxy, create a ~/.mavenrc file with something like: MAVEN_OPTS="$MAVEN_OPTS -Dmaven.proxy.host=YOUR_PROXY_HOSTNAME -Dmaven.proxy.port=YOUR_PROXY_PORT"