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-Bootstrapping Maven
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+See: 
 
-Set the environment variable M2_HOME pointing to the dir where you want Maven2
-installed... with two key restrictions.
-
-1) presently, the directory {M2_HOME}/bin must be in your path:
-set PATH=%PATH%;%M2_HOME%\bin
-or
-export PATH=$PATH:$M2_HOME/bin
-
-2) The last part of the M2_HOME path MUST be of the form maven-$version, eg:
-/usr/local/maven-2.1-SNAPSHOT
-
-You can set the parameters passed to the Java VM when running Maven2 bootstrap,
-setting the environment variable MAVEN_OPTS, e.g. to run in offline mode,
-set MAVEN_OPTS=-o
-
-Then run bootstrap.bat (in Windows) or bootstrap.sh (in Unix)
-
-NOTE: You must run these instructions from this directory!
-
-If you are behind a firewall, you will need to let the bootstrap process know.
-To do this, create a file at ~/.m2/settings.xml and paste in the XML below,
-substituting your settings for those provided. You can safely skip the
-username, password and nonProxyHost elements if they are not relevant to you.
-
-<settings>
-  <proxies>
-    <proxy>
-      <active>true</active>
-      <protocol>http</protocol>
-      <host>proxy.somewhere.com</host>
-      <port>8080</port>
-      <username>proxyuser</username>
-      <password>somepassword</password>
-      <nonProxyHosts>www.google.com|*.somewhere.com</nonProxyHosts>
-    </proxy>
-  </proxies>
-</settings>
+http://maven.apache.org/guides/development/guide-building-m2.html