Running Maven Error - Missing Project Exception

Hi,

I was trying to run Maven after installation to complete an example Mahout
job in the following link:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAHOUT/Clustering+of+synthetic+control+data

The instructions ask to run "mvn clean install" from the $MAHOUT_HOME
directory in step 3a.

When I do so, I get a Build failure, Missing Project Exception.

I'm using Maven 3.0.4, Java 1.7.0_25 on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS

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Is there a step missing in the tutorial where I have to create a project? I
am not sure why it is giving this error.

Thanks in advance for your help!