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Do I understand correctly that in order to use `@file:DependsOn` in scripts, I also need to separately pre-install maven in order to be able to install the dependencies? Or does maven somehow come together with the kotlin compiler?

There is a resolver built-in you shouldn't need anything else as long as your dependency is on maven central

Note maven != maven central. Maven is a build tool for building jvm apps. You really don't need it for your scripts

Maven central is the main repository for JVM dependencies. This is where dependencies are downloaded. This one you need most of the times for your scripts

Thank you very much for the quick response!

And if you need some other repository, there is also `@file:Repository`

Note that, for this support to kick in, you need to be using a script definition that has such dependency resolution support. For instance, the `main-kts` script definition does, so you would get that support in scripts with the `.main.kts` extension.