title: Unable to create a new maven hello-world project
body: <p>I am looking at few maven tutorial videos and then I ran into this command after installing maven:</p>
  
  <pre><code>mvn archetype:create -DgroupId=com.di.maven -DartifactId=hello-world
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The build fails and throws the following error:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-none prettyprint-override"><code>Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.3:create 
  (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: Unable to parse configuration of mojo 
  org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2.3:create for parameter #: Abstract 
  class or interface 'org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.ArtifactRepository' cannot be 
  instantiated -&gt; [Help 1]
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What is the reason and how can I fix it? I am running as an user in Ubuntu.</p>