Maven Installation - could not find org.codehaus.plexus.classoworlds.launcher.Launcher

Question

I have access to maven through Netbeans IDE, but am trying to install Maven 3.5.0 separate so I could install custom jar files into local .m2 repo through command line in cmd.

I have downloaded the zip file for Maven 3.5.0 from http://maven.apache.org/download.cgi

file : apache-maven-3.5.0-src.zip

When I tried executing the command

mvn -v

getting this error..

Error: Could not find or load main class org.codehaus.plexus.classwolrds.launcher.Launcher

I have already tried various environment variable settings such as

• adding User PATH to the apache maven bin
• adding System PATH to the apache maven bin
• Setting MAVEN_HOME in System to apache maven folder
• Setting M2_HOME and M3_HOME instead of MAVEN_HOME

finally when I tried to run mvn -v from apache maven bin direct

c:\Program Files\apache-maven-3.5.0\apache-maven\src\bin>mvn -v

still got the same issue, I figure there is a conflict in installation itself.