[question] unable to use archetype ("does not exist"), Nexus

[paulvi]

When using mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=http://open-archetypes.github.io/maven-repo/snapshots/ and selecting 4 for this plugin

Choose a number or apply filter (format: [groupId:]artifactId, case sensitive co
ntains): : 4
Downloading: http://192.168.16.232:8081/nexus/content/groups/public/org/openarch
etypes/tycho-eclipse-plugin-archetype/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Downloading: http://192.168.16.232:8081/nexus/content/groups/public/org/openarch
etypes/tycho-eclipse-plugin-archetype/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT/tycho-eclipse-plugin-archet
ype-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 9:42.197s
[INFO] Finished at: Tue Aug 06 12:52:20 CST 2013
[INFO] Final Memory: 12M/152M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-archetype-plugin:2
.2:generate (default-cli) on project standalone-pom: The desired archetype does
not exist (org.openarchetypes:tycho-eclipse-plugin-archetype:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT) ->
[Help 1]

Though of cause files are present at https://github.com/open-archetypes/maven-repo/tree/gh-pages/snapshots/org/openarchetypes/tycho-eclipse-plugin-archetype/1.0.0-SNAPSHOT

When using Eclipse m2e and adding http://open-archetypes.github.com/maven-repo/snapshots/ catalog , on the 3rd Wizard page (where GroupId, ArtifactId are) Eclipse doesn't show properties and fails (even if adding properties manually)

Is it network related problem or there are more things to check.

[paulvi]

The problem was that setting.xml was set to use Nexus for all.

Please update README to mention use with Nexus.