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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 #Starting Karaf section of this document.
6. Following start-up, go to the #Testing the Installation section of this document.
7. Optional: see 7.1. Enabling Colorized Console Output On Windows

Windows Source Installation

This procedure explains how to download and install the source distribution on a Windows system. NOTE: Karaf requires Java 5 is compile, build and run.

1. From a browser, navigate to http://servicemix.apache.org/kernel/download.html
2. Click the "ServiceMix Kernel x.y Release" link under the "Latest Releases" section. This brings up another page.
3. 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.zip.
4. Extract Karaf from the ZIP file into a directory of your choice. Please remember the restrictions concerning illegal characters in Java paths, e.g. !, % etc.

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   Build ServiceMix Kernel using Maven 2.0.8 or greater and Java 5.
   The recommended method of building Karaf is the following:

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   cd [servicemix_install_dir]\\src

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   where {{\[servicemix_install_dir\]}} is the directory in which Karaf was installed.

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   mvn

   Both steps take around 10 to 15 minutes.
6. Unzip the distribution using your favorite zip tool. The windows distribution is available at

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   [servicemix_install_dir]\assembly\target\apache-servicemix-kernel-x.y.zip

7. Proceed to the #Starting Karaf section of this document.
8. Following start-up, go to the #Testing the Installation section of this document.
9. Optional: see 7.1. Enabling Colorized Console Output On Windows

Windows Developers Release

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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 #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.
8. Optional: see 7.1. Enabling Colorized Console Output On Windows

Installation Procedure For Unix

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