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The above command will create local installation from the onos.tar.gz
file (re-building it if necessary) and will start it in the background. In the foreground, it will display a continuous view of the ONOS (Apache Karaf) log file. Options following the double-dash (–) are passed through to the ONOS Apache Karaf and can be omitted. Here, the clean
option forces a clean installation of ONOS and the debug
option means that the default debug port 5005 will be available for attaching a remote debugger.
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