Error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher in windows 10

Question

I am using windows 10 and i have set the path as mention in the instruction

• Set M2_HOME (E:\softwares\apache-maven-3.3.9)
• Set M2 (%M2_HOME%\bin)
• Set system variable path (%M2_HOME%\bin)

When i run mvn --version i am getting error

    C:\Users\zafaque>echo %M2_HOME%
E:\softwares\apache-maven-3.3.9

C:\Users\zafaque>mvn --version
Error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher

Answer 1

I had the same issue using the source zip archive files from the maven.apache website. I solved using the Binary zip archive files.