title: How to deploy a karaf feature from a local maven repository?
body: <p>I've created by first project for karaf (4.0.1). So far I've got the following:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>an application bundle built with the <code>maven-bundle-plugin</code>. There are going to be more...</li>
  <li>a karaf feature created with the <code>karaf-maven-plugin</code>.</li>
  <li>a karaf-assembly created with the same plugin</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So I'm ready to deliver to the customer - but I'm stuck over the development process. <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24791950/how-to-work-with-frequent-local-snapshot-bundle-deployments-on-karaf">This question</a> answered almost all my remaining questions save one:</p>
  
  <p>After having built my project by running <code>maven install</code> I think I should be able to to get my feature running on a local karaf instance using something like the command <code>feature:install</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I can install my application bundle from local maven by using <code>bundle:install</code> but then I'm down to managing dependencies myself.</p>
  
  <p>Really can't figure out while <code>bundle:install</code> works against my local maven repository and <code>feature:install</code> doesn't.</p>