How to add local jar into your local maven repository

As subject, sometimes, we can not find some jars in Maven centre repository, so we should add them into our local repository.

Steps:

• Download jar from offical web site.

  for example, I download mysql jdbc driver from oracle, and put the jar into my disk, path: D:\apache-maven-3.3.3\mavenRepository\mysql\mysql-connector-java\5.1.36-bin 

• Install the jar 

execute following commend:

run cmd

cd: d:

cd: D:\apache-maven-3.3.3\mavenRepository\mysql\mysql-connector-java\5.1.36-bin

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=mysql-connector-java-5.1.36-bin.jar -DgroupId=mysql -DartifactId=mysql-connector-java -Dversion=5.1.36-bin -Dpackaging=jar.

Here you will run into an error, say there is no project, missing a pom, if your commend is:

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=D:\apache-maven-3.3.3\mavenRepository\mysql\mysql-connector-java\5.1.36-bin\mysql-connector-java-5.1.36-bin.jar -DgroupId=mysql -DartifactId=mysql-connector-java -Dversion=5.1.36-bin -Dpackaging=jar.

error screen is 

only difference is -Dfile should not contains full path, if you want to install the jar, enter into the fold where your jar is in.