# Newbie question: after building with mvn, where is the tar created?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 12, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561 "2015-06-12T11:18:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Nukles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nukles)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561/1 "2015-06-12T11:18:37Z")
Hi all, I've recently built elastic from scratch with maven. However once the build was completed, I didn't find the tar file, as expected, in target/releases but in core/target/releases. The plugins where build in the plugins directory.
Is that normal?
I was wondering because there is indeed a target/release directory, but as mentioned, the files are created inside core/target/releases... is that normal? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561/2 "2015-06-12T12:03:17Z")
Sounds like you are using the master branch. Some folks have been doing
some reorganizing there. I suspect the instructions are more right for the
1.6 branch.
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561/3 "2015-06-12T12:15:44Z")
For the master branch, core/target/releases is indeed the right place to find the tar file.
Was there some documentation you were looking at that pointed you to target/releases? If so, can you point me to it so I can get it updated?
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### Author:  [@Nukles](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Nukles)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561/4 "2015-06-12T12:40:40Z")
Yes I did the Master.
The file README.textile, in section "Building from Source", tells to find the files inside that directory.
I initially followed this guide by the way.
[http://pyes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/appendix/building-from-source.html](http://pyes.readthedocs.org/en/latest/guide/appendix/building-from-source.html)
Thank you very much for your help!
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### Author:  [@colings86](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/colings86)
#### Post date: [June 12, 2015, 12:54pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561/5 "2015-06-12T12:54:33Z")
Thanks for pointing that out, I'll make sure it gets fixed.
By the way, the documentation on the [pyes.readthedocs.org](http://pyes.readthedocs.org) link looks quite out of date. I would look at [https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/index.html) first for documentation as these are the docs build directly from the github project repositories.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/newbie-question-after-building-with-mvn-where-is-the-tar-created/2561/6 "2017-07-06T00:07:51Z")