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• First, install Maven:
  • For most Linux distributions, you should be able to just install the Maven client available in your distribution's repositories.
  • For all other operating systems, you can install the latest version from the Apache Maven site.
• Configure Netbeans to use your external Maven:
  • Go to the "Tools" menu, and select "Options" (on OS/X, this is "NetBeans" -> "Preferences")
  • Select the "Miscellaneous" section.
  • Select the "Maven" tab.
  • Directly under the "External Maven Home" field, you'll see a line that says "Using Default Maven Version:____". It's possible that Netbeans will already see your external version of Maven (if it's in your PATH). However, if it says that it is using the "bundled maven", then you'll want to fill out the "_External Maven Home" field with the location of your external installation of Maven.
  • In the middle of this page, you may also need to fill out the location of your "Local Repository". This should be the location of the ".m2" directory under your user's home directory.
    • On Linux and OS/X, it should be located at ~/.m2/
    • On Windows, it should be located at C:\Documents and Settings\username\.m2 (Windows XP) or C:\Users\username\.m2 (Windows 7)
  • All the other Maven settings should be fine as their defaults. Press "OK" to save your changes.

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1. The easiest way to install DSpace may be to just follow the normal installation procedure in the DSpace System Documentation. NetBeans doesn't seem to have an efficient way to perform this installation, so it's easiest to just do it from the command line, as normal.
2. Alternatively, you can use NetBeans to run the ant fresh_install command as follows: (You need to create a database and a database owner first.)
   • Go to your start browser, open pgAdmin (Assuming you install PostGreSQL)
   • Connect to PostGreSQL 9.0
   • Right click login roles, select new login role
   • Type dspace for the following fields: Role name/ password/ password again
   • Click Ok
   • Right click database, select new database
   • Type dspace in the following field: Name. Select dspace from dspace owner field
   • Click Ok
   • Return to project folder in Netbeans
   • Click over to the "Files" tab in the left hand window

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     Browse under the "DSpace Assembly and Configuration" project. You are looking for the {{target/dspace-\[version\]-build.dir/build.xml}} Ant configuration file.

   • Right click on the build.xml file and select "Run Target" => "fresh_install"

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       The above command will perform a fresh install of DSpace based on the settings specified in your {{target/dspace-\[version\]-build.dir/config/dspace.cfg}} file.

     Wiki MarkupFinally, return to the normal installation procedure in the [DSpace System Documentation|DSDOC:Installation] for the commands to setup an initial DSpace Administrator, etc. from your newly created {{\[dspace\]}} installation directory.
     • The default installation url is C:\dspace.
   • After installation, open cmd
   • Navigate to your installation folder\bin. Default is C:\dspace. Example command: cd C:\dspace\bin
   • Type the following command: dspace.bat create-administrator
   • Key in the information specified by the command prompt instructions

Run DSpace from NetBeans with Tomcat

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           <plugins>
                 <!-- overall project assembly -->
                 <plugin>
                            <artifactId>maven-assembly-plugin</artifactId>
                           <version>2.2-beta-1</version>
                           <configuration>
                           <descriptors>
                              <descriptor>src/assemble/assembly.xml</descriptor>
                           </descriptors>
                           </configuration>
                           <executions>
                           <execution>
                           <phase>package</phase>
                           <goals>
                           <goal>directory-single</goal>
                           </goals>
                           </execution>
                           </executions>
                 </plugin>

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