Problems integrating Maven with Eclipse Kepler

Problems integrating Maven with Eclipse Kepler

I am totally new to working with Maven in Eclipse. I am using the latest
verion of Eclipse (Kepler). According other posts, as well as Eclipse's
help page
http://help.eclipse.org/kepler/index.jsp?topic=//org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/tasks/tasks-127.htm
, I am supposed to try to install new software within Eclipse IDE.
However, when I try to Add Eclipse's recommended m2e release, Eclipse
gives me an error:
Unable to read repository at
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases.
download.eclipse[...]releases is not a valid repository location.
Essentially I run into the same problem no matter which approach I take
outlined on the Eclipse help page. Is there some other/better way to
integrate Maven with Eclipse? Are there steps I should have taken before
this? All I have done so far is install Eclipse. How can I successfully
get Maven running?