Maven: “Error installing metadata”
Today I had a problem compiling and installing a simple maven project.
Every time I ran “mvn install” I received the following error:
Error installing artifact's metadata: Error installing metadata: Error updating group repository metadata input contained no data
The problem here was an empty maven-metadata-local.xml in my local repository of the artifact I wanted to install. After completely removing this artifact from my repository an install was possible.
Januar 16th, 2010 at 22:33
Thank you! This helped me greatly!
Februar 19th, 2010 at 19:36
Thank you! I was stuck stuck stuck.
for those trying to find said file;
sudo find / -name maven-metadata-local.xml -empty -print
Oktober 4th, 2010 at 16:45
Thanks a lot, it was really helpful for me.
März 23rd, 2011 at 12:44
Nice tip. Thanks.
April 15th, 2011 at 17:11
Cryptic message, clear explanation
Juli 20th, 2011 at 12:50
thanks a lot dude gr8 help !!
September 6th, 2011 at 11:28
Nice one mate. Short post with great help.
September 16th, 2011 at 01:28
Thanks. I’m really glad I didn’t have to figure that out.
September 30th, 2011 at 21:52
Thanks a lot.It saved me a lot of time. gr8 help.
Oktober 5th, 2011 at 17:21
Thanks a lot, that was very helpful
good work 
Oktober 18th, 2011 at 13:11
Why this could happens? this is the problem!
November 28th, 2011 at 18:46
Thanks a lot! I had the same issue and it worked for me.
Dezember 9th, 2011 at 23:43
Thanks a lot!
April 19th, 2012 at 16:15
This happened to me after my computer crashed so I guess its due to data corruption.
April 20th, 2012 at 11:13
Thanks a lots. It works