When building an old project, sometimes I encounter the dreaded Failed to resolve artifact error. What I do then is search for the jar and pom of that specific artifact and use the [mvn install:install-file goal to manually install it locally][1]. This solves the trivial case, but sometimes the project's dependency on the artifact is not trivial and includes in the project's pom fields such as: runtime or worse: cglib cglib-nodep How would you handle these cases? Is there a way to add these fields to the command as well? [1]: http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-install-plugin/usage.html