While trying to install to maven in windows am getting this error . What i have tried is , I have set the Environment variables as follows : System variable :: MAVEN_HOME :: C:\Users\hari\Downloads\apache-maven-3.3.9 User Variable :: PATH : C:\Users\HARI\Downloads\apache-maven-3.3.9\bin; JAVA_HOME : C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_101\jre ERROR in cmd :: C:\Users\hari>mvn -version Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/plexus/l ogging/LoggerManager at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701) at java.lang.Class.privateGetMethodRecursive(Class.java:3048) at java.lang.Class.getMethod0(Class.java:3018) at java.lang.Class.getMethod(Class.java:1784) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.getEnhancedMainMethod(Launcher.java:172) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launchEnhanced(Launcher.java:268) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.launch(Launcher.java:229) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.mainWithExitCode(Launcher.java:415) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.launcher.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:356) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.plexus.logging.LoggerManager at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.strategy.SelfFirstStrategy.loadClass(SelfFirstStrategy.java:50) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.unsynchronizedLoadClass(ClassRealm.java:271) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:247) at org.codehaus.plexus.classworlds.realm.ClassRealm.loadClass(ClassRealm.java:239) ... 10 more what i should do to configure it rightly ?