Scala sbt unable to find commons-logging-1.0.4.jar - scala

Question

I am trying to get an open source project running with scala that is built using sbt.
I downloaded sbt and set it up. But when I try to run sbt from the command line, I get the following error.
:: problems summary :: :::: WARNINGS [NOT FOUND ]
commons-logging#commons-logging;1.0.4!commons-logging.jar (1ms)
==== Maven2 Local: tried
file:///Users/jeremy/.m2/repository/commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
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:: FAILED DOWNLOADS ::
:: ^ see resolution messages for details ^ ::
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:: commons-logging#commons-logging;1.0.4!commons-logging.jar
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:: USE VERBOSE OR DEBUG MESSAGE LEVEL FOR MORE DETAILS download
failed: commons-logging#commons-logging;1.0.4!commons-logging.jar
Error during sbt execution: Error retrieving required libraries (see
/Users/jeremy/sourceCode/public/scalaConsole/project/boot/update.log
for complete log) Error: Could not retrieve sbt 0.10.1
Any ideas on how I could resolve this.
I have scala 2.9.1 and sbt version 0.10.1
Thanks

Answer 1

It worked for me after I removed both ~/.m2/repository/commons-logging and ~/.ivy2/cache/commons-logging. If sbt founds none of this two paths it will actually try and download the commons logging package.

Answer 2

Sometimes maven doesn't download the files correctly and you'll only find a .pom file in the repository and no commons-logging-1.0.4.jar file. First I removed ~/.m2/repository/commons-logging. Then I downloaded the jar manually from http://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=commons-logging/commons-logging/1.0.4/commons-logging-1.0.4.jar and finally installed the jar using the mvn install command:
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=commons-logging -DartifactId=commons-logging -Dversion=1.0.4 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=commons-logging-1.0.4.jar

Answer 3

Are you behind a proxy server? If so you may need to modify your sbt bat or sh script to pass along the proxy information to the JVM like so:
java -XX:MaxPermSize=96m -Xmx512m -Dhttp.proxyHost=my.proxy.server.com -Dhttp.proxyPort=1234 -jar sbt-launch-0.10.1.jar

Answer 4

I don't know what the root cause of the issue is. But I use a script that automatically installs and launches sbt; so I modified the script to download commons-logging before running sbt.
The sbt launcher is here: https://gist.github.com/1274530
To run sbt, save the script somewhere in your $PATH, make sure that is executable, and run it by typing sbt.

Answer 5

Add http://repo1.maven.org/maven to the maven.repo.remote property in your project.properties file. This will download the file from the maven2 remote repository.
Old entry:
maven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven
New entry:
maven.repo.remote=http://www.ibiblio.org/maven,http://repo1.maven.org/maven