How to change Maven local repository location

The default path for the maven local repository is ${user.home}/.m2/repository/

Please follow the tutorial if you are not installed, maven.

Find the M2 location as ,{M2_HOME}\conf\ where M2_HOME is maven installation folder.

In our case the location is


C:\Program Files\Maven\apache-maven-3.6.3\conf

Open settings.xml


 <settings>
  ...
   <localRepository>/path/to/local/repo/ </localRepository>
  ...
 </settings>

Find the tag <localRepository>

Update the desired path in the value of this tag. Save the file.

in our case it is

C:\Program Files\Maven\repository

In this article, we have seen How to change Maven local repository location with Example.

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