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When I run mvn commands, I'm getting this error back:

Goal requires a project to execute but there is no POM in this directory
(/Users/hojung). Please verify you invoked Maven from the correct directory.

However, I'm not finding POM in any directory at all. Has anyone run into/solved a variation of this same problem?

This is the command I'm running btw, in order to set up the installation for sutime:

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory=./jars

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    Maven is a build tool. To be used as a build tool it needs something to build. A pom.xml defines what maven is meant to build. Any project intended to be built with maven will define a pom somewhere, which maven can then use. – PiRocks Jan 14 '20 at 23:03
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    https://github.com/FraBle/python-sutime seems to have a pom.xml defined in it's top level directory – PiRocks Jan 14 '20 at 23:03
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    Make sure that you invoke maven from the directory which contains the pom in question. – PiRocks Jan 14 '20 at 23:04
  • Ah, I see - which directory should I be invoking maven from? – Hojung Kim Jan 14 '20 at 23:22
  • Ah, also, it seems that `pip install sutime` actually installs a directory that doesn't include a pom.xml file. Strange, because the Github does have a pom.xml in its main directory – Hojung Kim Jan 14 '20 at 23:28
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    Got it by just downloading the pom.xml file independently from sutime library! – Hojung Kim Jan 14 '20 at 23:37

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There is no Maven without a pom.xml file

Maven uses a pom.xml file as sort of a configuration file. It has information about how to compile, what to compile, when to compile, libraries to import, etc. If you don't have a pom.xml, there is nothing for Maven to do.

So there is nothing to "solve".

If your repository does not have a pom.xml file, then it can't run Maven commands. Which means you need to re-download (re-pull) the file from the repository. My guess is it got moved/deleted by accident.

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Hi I did a project last week with SUTime, you must download SUTime repository, in the repositoyr you see a pom.xml file, after that run your code 

mvn dependency:copy-dependencies -DoutputDirectory=./jars

in that directory.

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