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In this how-to we go over the process of checking out and then building Felix from source all from with in the NetBeans IDE.

h2. Required Software:

# NetBeans 6.1 - You can get NetBeans

 [Here|http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.1/final/]
# Subversion command line client - NetBeans uses the subversion command line client for its subversion integration. You can get the subversion command line client [here|http://subversion.tigris.org/] or if you are working on a Unix machine it will most likely be in your os's package repository.
# NetBeans Maven plugin - You can install this from with in NetBeans by selecting Tools->Plugins then choose the Maven plugin from the Available Plugins tab and press the Install button on the bottom of the dialog. For a good introduction of what you can do with this plugin see [MavenBestPractices|http://wiki.netbeans.org/MavenBestPractices] on the NetBeans wiki.
# Maven - You will also need a local install of maven to complete this how-to as well. You can find maven [here|http://maven.apache.org/]
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{note:title=Why do we need maven}The NetBeans Maven plugin comes prepackaged with Maven so why do we need a local copy of Maven? The version of Maven that comes prepackaged with NetBeans is 2.1-SNAPSHOOT which currently has issues building Felix so we need a copy of the current release version of Maven installed locally so we can use that instead.
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h2. Check out Felix

*1)* From NetBeans main menu select Versioning->Subversion->Checkout as shown in Figure1
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