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1. From a browser, navigate to http://karaf.apache.org/download.html.
2. Scroll down to the "Apache Karaf" section and select the desired distribution.
   For a source distribution, the filename will be similar to: apache-karaf-x.y-src.zip.
3. 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 Karaf using Maven 2.0.9 or greater and Java 5.
   The recommended method of building Karaf is the following:

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   cd [karaf_install_dir]\\src
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   where {{\[karaf_install_dir\]}} is the directory in which Karaf was installed.

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   mvn

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

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   \[karaf_install_dir\]\assembly\target\apache-karaf-x.y.zip

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

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If Karaf is up and running without problems, the Window's console window or the Unix command shell will display something similar to the following log line:

You can use the client mode to connect to a running Karaf:
On Windows:

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