[Building Sakai] install the source of sakai

[Yasir Arfat]

I try to install the source of sakai, but could not succeed, i have few
problems related to installation guide given sakaiproject.org.
(1) To checkout a stable release tag issue the following svn command from
the terminal:
            svn co
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/sakai/tags/sakai-2.7.0/ sakai-2.7.0

i could not understant where to paste this line and run.


(2)MAVEN_OPTS
export MAVEN_OPTS='-Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=64m -XX:MaxPermSize=128m'

i paste according to instruction java_home environment variable, can any one
tell me that i  am right.

(3) Create a local Maven repository
mkdir %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\.M2\repository

i have create this directory.
but when i run sakai , some error occure that there is no plugin for maven
in repository directory


(4)<appserver.id>tomcat5x</appserver.id>
i have install apache-tomcat-5.5.30 binary,
in configuration i have to chanage  "tomcat5x" with "apache-tomcat-5.5.30"
or i have to leave it same

(5)Configure Sakai
i don't know where to place sakai source file in apache-tomcat-5.5.30
folder,

(6) Build, deploy and start up Sakai in Tomcat
cd master
mvn clean install
cd ..
i don't know what is "cd master" and i have to write it as on command prompt
(7)Install and deploy Sakai
 issue the following Maven goals from the top-level Sakai source directory:
mvn clean install sakai:deploy -Dmaven.tomcat.home=/pathto/tomcathome

i don't know where to place the sorce file of sakai, and after this from
which folder issue i have to above command.
when issue above command then system give error no plugin found in
repository directory

i try to install source from three to four days but fail, can any help me
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