Maven not downloading the plugin

[Anu satya]

Hi I have Maven 2.0.9 and I am trying to configure it.
When i am trying to build my project, I am getting error as:

[ERROR] BUILD ERROR
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] The plugin 'org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin' does not ex
ist or no valid version could be found
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Trace
org.apache.maven.lifecycle.LifecycleExecutionException: The plugin 'org.apache.m
aven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin' does not exist or no valid version could b
e found

Can any one help? PLEASE

[Peter Johnson]

Sounds like you don't have access to Maven Central (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/). Do you use a proxy to connect to the internet?

Also, did you define a mirror in your settings.xml file?