Where is the maven local repo path specified in environments?

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I'm looking to programmatically determine where my .m2 directory when inside the JVM. Is there a properties value or an environment key that is avaliable?

So when you run your program you want to know where the .m2 directory is? Even if you can do that, will it do what you want? If you ran your code on my machine it'd find my .m2 directory, but it would not contain the files that you are expecting. — DaveH, Mar 12 '14 at 20:56
When doing maven plugin development that location can be accessed as described here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7429731/1081849 From your built application it wont be available unless you pass it yourself. Your built application is totally separated from maven. — sbk, Mar 12 '14 at 20:59

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 12 '14 at 20:58

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check inside your maven install directory

Maven\conf\setting.xml

<!-- localRepository
 | The path to the local repository maven will use to store artifacts.   |
   | Default: ${user.home}/.m2/repository
  <localRepository>/path/to/local/repo</localRepository>
-->

you can change it to your own directory

answered Mar 12 '14 at 20:58

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How do you determine the maven installation directory? – zcaudate Mar 12 '14 at 21:13

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '14 at 20:59

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If you are using Windows Machine :

Maven Directory Path :- C:\Users\[user-name]\.m2

If you are using Linux Machine :

Maven Directory Path :- \home\[user-name]\.m2

answered Mar 12 '14 at 20:59

unknown

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These are default values at best. The location can be changed by the settings.xml as shown by @loknath – sbk Mar 12 '14 at 21:00
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yes, you can change it, but this one is default path. – unknown Mar 12 '14 at 21:02

Where is the maven local repo path specified in environments?

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