I am a newbie to maven and i gone through the configuration steps given in Apache site, but still i cant configure it. So anyone please help me with simple steps to configure MAVEN in windows. Thanks in advance.

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C:\Documents and Settings\arselv>mvn install
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building Maven Default Project
[INFO]    task-segment: [install]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-         resources-     plugin/2.3/maven-resources-plugin-2.3.pom
Downloading: http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/maven/plugins/maven-resources-  plugin/2.3/maven-resources-plugin-2.3.pom
 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [ERROR] BUILD ERROR
 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [INFO] Error building POM (may not be this project's POM).

 Project ID: org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin
 Reason: POM 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin' not found in   repository: Unable to download the artifact from any repository
 org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin:pom:2.3
 from the specified remote repositories:
 central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2)
 for project org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin

 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [INFO] For more information, run Maven with the -e switch
 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
 [INFO] Total time: 42 seconds
 [INFO] Finished at: Fri Feb 05 13:10:06 IST 2010
 [INFO] Final Memory: 2M/5M
 [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

So Above is the Error whil trying to do the steps given in apache site.