I solved this by selecting "Project" as view (by default i had "Project Files"). Hope this helped.

Project View VS. Project Files view

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Not all Maven dependencies appear in "External libraries" – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
March 29, 2012 - I also had this problem, I tried ... here and it worked ... @Jmeen011 Your answer worked for me, I simply had to do invalidate caches and restart for intelliJ to reinsert all my dependencies....
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Maven Dependency not recognized by IntelliJ – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
May 5, 2023 - Check if pom.xml file is not added in the ignored files list in Settings (⌘ + , or Ctrl + Alt + S) > Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Maven > Ignored Files · Delete the .idea folder and any *.iml files in your project folder and re-import the project from sources · If the issue persists, please share a screenshot of the entire IDE window showing: Project tool window with External Libraries node expanded
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Why intelliJ doesn't show maven dependency as External dependencies and also shows red symbols even though the dependencies are downloaded - Stack Overflow
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Dependencies from external website don't work. (Maven)
Maven downloads the dependencies from remote repositories that is defined in pom.xml, for each project, or in settings.xml, for all your projects (default repository is https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/ ). Downloaded dependencies is stored in a local repository that is shared by all your project. To use a third party library you must include it as a dependency in pom.xml (as you have done). When Maven build your project it will try to locate the dependencies in your local repo, dependencies not found there it will Maven try to download from remote repository, in turn (if found in a remote repo Maven will "cache" the dependency in your local repo for future use, Maven will treat SNAPSHOT specially). Depending on how/if the project is shared with others you may need to find, and include, a remote Maven repository that host the library (you may try looking it up with https://mvnrepository.com/search , which includes many remote repos). If the library is not published you, and everyone that need to build your project, need download and install it to the local repository manually (described at https://maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-3rd-party-jars-local.html ). More about repositories: https://maven.apache.org/guides/introduction/introduction-to-repositories.html More on reddit.com
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IntelliJ not able to resolve classes of external Libraries for Maven projects – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
February 2, 2016 - 3. External dependencies shows everything, it could be that the dependency is added to some other module and the module that has the problem doesn't have this specific dependency for some reason.
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IntelliJ not resolving Maven dependencies – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
June 2, 2019 - Seems to me that the libraries folder in .idea just never updated. Hope this helps someone ... The only way to make it work is to perform a maven build outside of IntelliJ and then it works.
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r/IntelliJIDEA on Reddit: Dependencies from external website don't work. (Maven)
November 7, 2021 -

Hello everybody, I'm trying to use a dependency from a github repository but I doesn't seem to work. Here is my dependencies section from pom.xml.

<dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.spigotmc</groupId>
      <artifactId>spigot-api</artifactId>
      <version>1.17.1-R0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.github.Xezard</groupId>
      <artifactId>XGlow</artifactId>
      <version>{latest_version}</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>

It can't find the com.github.Xerard dependency but I added the .jar file to the libaries. How do I solve this?

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February 27, 2026 - Ensure that Maven is correctly configured in IntelliJ: Go to File > Settings > Build, Execution, Deployment > Build Tools > Maven · Check if the Maven home directory is set correctly ...
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Viewing dependencies in IntelliJ IDEA - Marit van Dijk
June 26, 2025 - One example is this pom.xml in a Maven project. ... Another example is the build.gradle in a Gradle project. ... Note that the dependency management config file includes only declared dependencies and not their transitive dependencies (or the dependencies that these declared dependencies depend on). In the Project tool window, ⌘1 (on Mac) or Alt+1 (on Windows/Linux), under External Libraries we can see all the JAR files needed by our application, including the transitive dependencies.
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Intellij idea cannot resolve anything in maven - Stack Overflow
Inside Intellij settings -> maven -> imports in the Use Maven3 to import project VM options for importer: -Xmx512m · This worked for me. ... You can go to your Maven directory(.m2) to delete all dependencies that have errors and show red, and then click refresh in Maven of IDEA.
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Changes to external Java library not picked up by compiler? – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
February 24, 2015 - The IDEA modules are imported via POM, and I can build via Maven successfully, even though the IDE says there's an error. But if I try to, say, run a unit test within the IDE, that will fail. So it's like Maven is seeing the updated external dependency as it should be, but the IDE is stuck thinking the module I'm working on is looking at the old dependency.
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Maven dependencies | IntelliJ IDEA Documentation
In the Maven tool window, on the toolbar, click or select the appropriate option from the context menu. In the POM, right-click anywhere in the editor to open the context menu and select Maven | Show Dependencies.
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Maven Dependencies not transfered to classpath – IDEs Support (IntelliJ Platform) | JetBrains
I solved this by setting the Project Structure > Project Settings > Modules > Dependencies > Module SDK to the correct one. In my case it was not set, but I would assume there could be other times you have multiple Java SDKs and you will need ...
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youtrack.jetbrains.com › issue › IDEA-176131 › External-libraries-doesnt-get-downloaded-when-importing-projects
External libraries doesn't get downloaded when importing ...
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August 23, 2017 -

I am new to maven and I'm not sure if this is an intellij issue, maven issue or me not understanding them correctly.

I am trying to use a dependency:

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.humble/humble-video-all -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.humble</groupId>
        <artifactId>humble-video-all</artifactId>
        <version>0.2.1</version>
    </dependency>

It says not found. I see a list of artefacts I can at as dependencies but how to I get those not listed? Do I need to manually download the JAR files from maven repositories?

Thanks.