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The modern web technologies that power Mirage 2 include a precompiler (Compass), a package manager (Bower) and a task runner (Grunt). These tools can only be installed when some prerequisites are present on the system. DSpace's Maven build process is capable of making a temporary installation of these dependencies just so the theme can be built. However the overall build time will be significantly shortened if these dependencies are manually installed on the system . More information on the prerequisites.(see below for more info).

By default, DSpace does not build the Mirage 2 theme (as it lengthens the normal build process).  However, you can easily tell DSpace to build Mirage 2 by running the following from your [dspace-source] directory:

mvn package -Dmirage2.on=true

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After building Mirage 2, you can install it this theme into your DSpace installation by simply re-running Ant from [dspace-source]/dspace/target/dspace-installer/ :

ant update

To enable Mirage 2, add the following to the <themes> section of your xmlui.xconf, replacing the currently active theme:

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