Maven plugins can not be found in IntelliJ

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After updating IntelliJ from version 12 to 13, the following Maven-related plugins cannot be resolved:

org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-clean-plugin:2.4.1
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-deploy-plugin
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-install-plugin
org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin

When using IntelliJ 12, these were not in the plugins list. Somehow they've been added after the update and now IntelliJ complains they cannot be found. Where can I remove these plugins from the list OR resolve the problem by installing them?

I can run maven goals clean and compile without problem, but the profile/plugins appear red with warnings in the IDE.

EDIT after 8 years: Please also have a look at all other good answers here. The accepted answer is a common solution but might not work for you or for your IDE version

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47 Answers

The red with warnings maven-site-plugin resolved after the build site Lifecycle:

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My IntelliJ version is Community 2017.2.4

user_20574630

SOLVED !!!

This is how I fixed the issue...

  1. Tried one of the answers which include 'could solve it by enabling "use plugin registry" '. Did enable that but no luck.

  2. Tried again one of the answers in the thread which says 'If that does not work, Invalidate your caches (File > Invalidate caches) and restart.' Did that but again no luck.

  3. Tried These options .. Go to Settings --> Maven --> Importing and made sure the following was selected

    Import Maven projects automatically

    Create IDEA modules for aggregator projects Keep source...

    Exclude build dir...

    Use Maven output...

    Generated souces folders: "detect automatically"

    Phase to be...: "process-resources"

    Automatically download: "sources" & "documentation"

    Use Maven3 to import

    project VM options for importer: -Xmx512m

    But again no success.

    1. Now lets say I had 10 such plugins which didn't get resolve and among them the first was 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-site-plugin' I went to '.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/' and deleted the directory 'maven-site-plugin' and did a maven reimport again. Guess what, particular missing plugin got dowloaded. And I just followed similar steps for other missing plugins and all got resolved.
user_68380100

I tried the other answers, but none of them solved this problem for me.

The problem disappeared when I explicitly added the groupId like this:

<plugins>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.0</version>
    </plugin>
</plugins>

Once the color of the version number changed from red to black and the problem disappeared from the Problems tab the groupId can be removed again from the problematic plugin, the error does not show up again and the version number even shows up as suggestion for version.

user_40769830

I am using IntelliJ Ultimate 2018.2.6 and found out, that the feature Reimport All Maven Project does not use the JDK, which is set in the Settings: Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Maven | Runner. Instead it uses it's own JRE in IntelliJ_HOME/jre64/ by default. You can configure the JDK for the Importer in Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Maven | Importing.

In my specific problem, an SSL certificate was missing in the JREs keystore. Unfortunately IDEA only logs this issue in it's own logfile. A little red box to inform about the RuntimeException had been really nice...

user_101669500

Remove your local Maven unknown plugin and reimport all maven projects. This will fix this issue.

You can find it under View > Tool Windows > Maven :

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user_39582440

For me it was as simple as giving the plugin a version:

<version>3.3.0</version>

The full plugin code sample is given below:

<build>
<plugins>
  <plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.3.0</version>
    <executions>
      <execution>
        <phase>package</phase>
        <goals>
          <goal>single</goal>
        </goals>
        <configuration>
          <archive>
            <manifest>
              <mainClass>Main</mainClass>
            </manifest>
          </archive>
          <descriptorRefs>
            <descriptorRef>jar-with-dependencies</descriptorRef>
          </descriptorRefs>
        </configuration>
      </execution>
    </executions>
  </plugin>
user_45766070

None of the other solutions worked for me.

My solution:

Maven Settings -> Repositories -> select Local Repository in the list, Update

Worked like a charm!

user_47381080

Here is what I tried to fix the issue and it worked:

  1. Manually deleted the existing plugin from the .m2 repo
  2. Enabled "use plugin registry" in IntelliJ
  3. Invalidated the cache and restarted IntelliJ
  4. Reimported the maven project in IntelliJ

After following above steps, the issue was fixed. Hopefully this helps you as well.

user_6045640

For me which worked is putting the repository which contained the plugin under pluginRepository tags. Example,

<pluginRepositories>
    <pluginRepository>
        <id>pcentral</id>
        <name>pcentral</name>
        <url>https://repo1.maven.org/maven2</url>
    </pluginRepository>
</pluginRepositories>
user_112511460

Enabling "use plugin registry" and Restart project after invalidate cash solved my problem

to Enabling "use plugin registry" >>> (intelij) File > Setting > Maven > enable the option from the option list of maven

To invalidate cash >>> file > invalidate cash

That's it...

user_90619420

This worked for me

  1. Go to Settings --> Maven --> Importing --> JDK for importer --> use "Use Project JDK" option instead of a custom JDK set previously.
  2. Re-build/re-import all the dependencies.
user_59820820

This worked for me:

  • Close IDEA
  • Delete "*.iml" and ".idea" -directories(present in the root folder of project)
  • Run "mvn clean install" from the command-line
  • Re-import your project into IDEA

After re-importing the entire project, installation of dependencies will start which will take some minutes to complete depending upon your internet connection.

user_85737810

My case:

  • maven-javadoc-plugin with version 3.2.0 is displayed red in IntelliJ.
  • Plugin is present in my local maven repo.
  • Re-imported maven million times.
  • Ran mvn clean install from the command line N times.
  • All my maven settings in IntelliJ are correct.
  • Tried to switch between Bundled and non-bundled Maven.
  • Tried do delete the whole maven repo and to delete only the plugin from it.
  • Nothing of the above worked.
  • The only thing that almost always helps with modern IntelliJ IDEA versions is "Invalidate caches / Restart". It helped this time as well. maven-javadoc-plugin is not red anymore, and I can click on it and to to the source pom file of the plugin.
user_85340880

Recently I faced the same issue. All tips doesn't work in my cause.

But I fix it.

Go to Intellij idea setting, find Maven, and in it you need to open Repository tab and update maven and local repos. That's all.

user_132998110

I use the community edition packaged as snap on Ubuntu 18.04.

I experience that issue each time there a IntelliJ release.

In that scenario, my working solution is to invoke the invalidate cache and restart from the file menù flagging the indexes removal too.

user_4185990

June/2021:

No Delete, No Reimport.

What I did is, I was going to :

C:\Users\dell\.m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins

Then double Click on every Plugin Folders, And see what version it is downloaded.

Then I came back to pom file, and according to downloaded version, I carefully changes those versions in <version>....</version> Tags. Then refresh.

And That way, All red marks are gone, Even gone those Yellow Marks.

All Clean.

Here is my full pom file for further notice. The Project is JavaFx+Maven with Shade :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>main.java.sample</groupId>
    <artifactId>ThreeColumnTable</artifactId>
    <version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
        <maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
        <maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
            <artifactId>javafx-controls</artifactId>
            <version>15.0.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
            <artifactId>javafx-fxml</artifactId>
            <version>15.0.1</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.4</version>
            <type>maven-plugin</type>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.7</version>
            <type>maven-plugin</type>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.8.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>11</source>
                    <target>11</target>
                    <release>11</release>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.6</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <phase>test</phase>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>resources</goal>
                            <goal>testResources</goal>
                        </goals>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-project-info-reports-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1.2</version>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.1.0</version>
                <configuration>
                    <filesets>
                        <fileset>
                            <directory>src/main/generated-groovy-stubs</directory>
                        </fileset>
                    </filesets>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.4</version>
                <configuration>
                    <archive>
                        <manifest>
                            <mainClass>org.example.App</mainClass>
                            <manifestFile>src/main/resources/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</manifestFile>
                        </manifest>
                    </archive>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
                <artifactId>javafx-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>0.0.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <mainClass>org.example.App</mainClass>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.2.4</version>
                <executions>
                    <execution>
                        <goals>
                            <goal>shade</goal>
                        </goals>
                        <configuration>
                            <shadedArtifactAttached>true</shadedArtifactAttached>
                            <shadedClassifierName>project-classifier</shadedClassifierName>
                            <transformers>
                                <transformer implementation=
                                                     "org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ManifestResourceTransformer">
                                    <mainClass>org.example.Main</mainClass>
                                </transformer>
                            </transformers>

                        </configuration>
                    </execution>
                </executions>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>
user_76083710

You can add them as dependencies:

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.4.1</version>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Intellij will resolve them. After successfull import dependencies, you can clean them.

user_64942940

For me, I download them manually and put theme in my .m2 folder then i did invalidate cache and restart (I m using Intellij IDEA). The steps are for example:

<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
              <artifactId>jdepend-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.0</version>
  1. I go to https://mvnrepository.com/ then serch for jdepend-maven-plugin choose the version 2.0
  2. In Files go and click on View All
  3. Download this files jdepend-maven-plugin-2.0.jar jdepend-maven-plugin-2.0.jar.sh1 jdepend-maven-plugin-2.0.pom jdepend-maven-plugin-2.0.pom.sh1

  4. go to .m2 folder then org/codehaus/mojo Create folder with name jdepend-maven-plugin inside with name 2.0 inside put the 4 files downloaded befor.

  5. create file with name _remote.repositories open it with text editor and write inside

jdepend-maven-plugin-2.0.jar>central=
jdepend-maven-plugin-2.0.pom>central=

  1. go to intellij IDEA invalidate cache and restart.
user_91723570

I had the same problem, After checking the pom.xml file, found out that I have duplicated plugins for the surefire. After deleting and leaving only 1 inside the pom.xml - issue resolved.

Also maven-surefire-report-plugin == LATEST and

     <dependency>
        <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
        <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
        <version>6.9.8</version>
    </dependency>
user_22652830

For me the Plugins were related to a Profile. I have to enable the relevant profile via Maven (right sidebar menu), Profiles and let the dependencies download.

user_13126380
  1. Check the plugins which cannot be found (maven-site-plugin,maven-resources-plugin)
  2. go to '.m2/repository/org/apache/maven/plugins/'
  3. delete the directory rm -rf plugin-directory-name (eg: rm -rf maven-site-plugin)
  4. exit project from intellij
  5. import project again
  6. Do a Maven reimport

Explanation: when you do a maven reimport, it will download all the missing plugins again.

Happy Coding

user_65375270

Tried invalidating cache, reimporting the project, removing .m2 folder partially and as a whole, and switching to the Idea bundled Maven. Nothing worked, and I've finally broken Maven completely: when it would build the project in the console, now it stopped. Had to reinstall Maven, and it helped!

user_52793450

In my case, I tried most of the answers above. I solve this problem by:

  • Cleaning all items in the .m2/repository folder
  • Uninstall Intellij Ultimate Version
  • Install Community Version

It so amazingly worked!

user_91001400
user_6575250

this might help someone down the line

i faced similar issues, my system was not able to resolve the proxy server
so connected to the local wifi hotpsot.

user_73034150

For me, there was a mistake in the settings.xml. I was using http:// in the url due to which it wasn't working. Once i removed it the plugins were downloaded successfully. 

<proxy>
   <id>optional</id>
   <active>true</active>
   <protocol>http</protocol>
   <host>www-proxy.xxxx.com</host>
   <port>80</port>
  <!-- <nonProxyHosts>local.net</nonProxyHosts>-->
  </proxy>

  <!-- Proxy for HTTPS -->
  <proxy>
   <id>optional1</id>
   <active>true</active>
   <protocol>https</protocol>
   <host>www-proxy.xxxx.com</host>
   <port>80</port>
   <!--<nonProxyHosts>local.net</nonProxyHosts>-->
  </proxy>
user_96185420

If problem persist, you can add manually the missing plugins files.

For example if maven-site-plugins is missing, go to https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-site-plugin

Choice your version, and download files associated directly into your .m2 folder, in this example : C:\Users\ {USERNAME} .m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins\maven-site-plugin\ {VERSION}

In IntelliJ IDEA, open Maven sidebar, and reload (tooltip : Reimport All Maven projects)

user_98585790

Try to put the following code in your pom.xml. If this does not work, try to change the <version>2.8.2</version> (diferent versions can be found in the maven repo.)

<build>
    <pluginManagement>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>2.8.2</version>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </pluginManagement>
</build>
user_57249840

None of these solutions worked for me. After a painful few hours, it turned out that the issue was caused by the way I imported the project.

Context: importing freshly generated Spring Initializr project with Web & Kafka dependencies.

Issue: plugin dependency was "Not found" and IntelliJ couldn't compile the app, even though mvn clean compile ran fine on the console.

The bad way: Importing it using the "New > Project from Existing Sources..." option.

The good way: Importing it using the "Open..." option.

Solution to go from the bad to the good: remove the project, delete and re-clone the repo from version control to make sure all gitignored IntelliJ files are removed, and import it into IntelliJ with the "Open..." option.

user_105028560

You must add the dependency

This question is old, but I hope my answer will help those who find it

Reference [link] https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-dependency-plugin/3.1.1

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.maven.plugins/maven-dependency-plugin -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.1</version>
</dependency>
user_192046130

I experienced the same issue. What resolved it for me was simply uninstalling intelliJ and reinstalling it.

user_57751580

I just delete all my maven plugins stored in .m2\repository\org\apache\maven\plugins, and IntelliJ downloaded all the plugins again a it solve my problem and it worked fine for me!!!

user_142714250
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