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1. From a browser, navigate to http://servicemix.apache.org/kernel/download.html.
2. Click the "Apache Felix Karaf x.y Release" link under the "Latest Releases" section. This brings up a new page.
3. Under the "Download Here" section, select the desired distribution (you may have to scroll down to see the "Download Here" section).
   For a binary distribution, the filename will be similar to: apache-felix-karaf-x.y.zip.
4. Extract the files from the ZIP file into a directory of your choice. Please remember the restrictions concerning illegal characters in Java paths, e.g. !, % etc.
5. Proceed to the 3. Installation #Starting Karaf section of this document.
6. Following start-up, go to the #Testing the Installation section of this document.

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1. From a browser, navigate to http://servicemix.apache.org/kernel.
2. Click the Download link in the navigation pane (the left pane).
3. Click the "Current development SNAPSHOT release" link.
4. Select the version of Karaf to download (if necessary, scroll down to see the Karaf snapshots).
5. Extract the files from the ZIP file into a directory of your choice. Please remember the restrictions concerning illegal characters in Java paths, e.g. !, % etc.
6. If a binary snapshot was downloaded proceed to the 3. Installation #Starting Karaf section of this document.
   If a source snapshot was downloaded perform step 5 (building) and step 6 (unzipping) of the #Windows Source Installation procedure and proceed to the #Starting Karaf section of this document.
7. Following start-up, proceed to the #Testing the Installation section.

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This procedure explains how to download and install the source distribution on a Unix system. This procedure assumes the Unix machine has a browser. Please see the previous 3. #Unix Binary Installation section for ideas on how to install Karaf without a browser. NOTE: Karaf requires Java 5 to compile, build and run.

1. From a browser, navigate to http://servicemix.apache.org/kernel.
2. Click the "Download" link in the navigation pane (the left pane).
3. Click the "Karaf Kernel x.y Release" link under the "Latest Releases" section. This brings up a new page.
4. Under the "Download Here" section, select the desired distribution (if necessary, scroll down to see the "Download Here" section).
   For a source distribution, the filename will be similar to: apache-servicemix-kernel-x.y-src.tar.gz.
5. Extract the files from the ZIP file into a directory of your choice. For example:

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   gunzip apache-servicemix-kernel-x.y-src.tar.gz tar xvf apache-servicemix-kernel-x.y-src.tar

   Please remember the restrictions concerning illegal characters in Java paths, e.g. !, % etc.
6. Build Karaf using Maven 2.0.8 or greater and Java 5:

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   The preferred method of building Karaf is the following: cd [servicemix_install_dir]/src where [servicemix_install_dir] is the directory in which Karaf was installed. mvn

7. Uncompress the distribution that has just been created

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   cd [servicemix_install_dir]/assembly/target gunzip apache-servicemix-kernel-x.y.tar.gz tar xvf apache-servicemix-kernel-x.y.tar

8. Proceed to the Starting #Starting Karaf section of this document.
9. Following start-up, go to the #Testing the Installation section.

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