How to fix "No plugin found for prefix 'liquibase' in the current project and in the plugin groups"

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I am new to Liquibase. I have already included maven plugins and liquibase to my pom.xml however when i update liquibase using mvn liquibase:update I get this error:

No plugin found for prefix 'liquibase' in the current project and in the plugin groups [org.apache.maven.plugins, org.codehaus.mojo]

How can I fix this error so that when I type mvn liquibase:update it will run properly

Here are some of the dependencies that are in my pom.xml related to liquibase

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
    <artifactId>liquibase-core</artifactId>
</dependency>

<build>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>2.5</version>
        <configuration>
            <useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>
    <plugin>
        <groupId>org.liquibase</groupId>
        <artifactId>liquibase-maven-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.6.3</version>
        <configuration>
            <propertyFile>src/main/resources/liquibase.properties</propertyFile>
            <promptOnNonLocalDatabase>false</promptOnNonLocalDatabase>
        </configuration>
    </plugin>
</build>

I already edit my post and included some plugins in my pom.xml — Euph, Oct 24 '19 at 06:09

score 26 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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I don't think the problem is with liquibase plugin itself. It's more about maven prefixes.

Try executing: mvn org.liquibase:liquibase-maven-plugin:update

Also, check out this question.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Oct 24 '19 at 13:23

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score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '20 at 13:36

Make sure you are in the right path when you are executing mvn liquibase:update command. And also try to run the command in a separate terminal like command prompt. In my case I'm using the terminal in IntelliJ IDEA when I had the problem but when I tried it in different terminal, it worked flawlessly.

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 28 '20 at 07:59

In my case problem was in path. I was trying to start command c:\mvn.cmd liquibase:status from wrong folder.

Running from c:\projects\My_current_project\mvn liquibase:status works like a charm. c:\projects\My_current_project\ is folder, where pom.xml is.

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 24 '22 at 11:56

In my case the issue was my pom is configured in such a way that the liquibase plugin is only defined under certain profiles which need to be passed in before the mvn liquibase:<your command here> gets run.

for example, if the pom.xml has a local profile and your liquibase plugin is ONLY defined under that profile, you should run something like mvn -P local liquibase:update in order for maven to pick up liquibase (since it's only defined in that profile)

How to fix "No plugin found for prefix 'liquibase' in the current project and in the plugin groups"

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