# Help Me! How to use Akka in Intelij?

**URL:** <https://discuss.akka.io/t/help-me-how-to-use-akka-in-intelij/1149>\
**Category:** Akka Libraries\
**Tags:** akka\
**Created:** [May 27, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/help-me-how-to-use-akka-in-intelij/1149 "2018-05-27T12:57:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![MHRSeddighian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@MHRSeddighian](https://discuss.akka.io/u/MHRSeddighian)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 12:57pm UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/help-me-how-to-use-akka-in-intelij/1149/1 "2018-05-27T12:57:25Z")

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Hello everybody.  
I’m a beginner programmer that start Scala. I want to use AKKA but when type import AKKA.actor… (in Intelij 2018 Community Edition) I see this error: “cannot resolve symbol AKKA”. I know this is a simple question but i can’t solve it. please help me. I know very little about java. please explain to me step by step how to solve this problem. thank you very much  
best regards

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**Author:** ![patriknw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.akka.io/patriknw/32/89_2.png) [@patriknw](https://discuss.akka.io/u/patriknw)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2018, 8:06pm UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/help-me-how-to-use-akka-in-intelij/1149/2 "2018-05-27T20:06:21Z")

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Give this a try: [https://akka.io/try-akka/](https://akka.io/try-akka/)

I think that Quickstart guide has some instructions for Intellij

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**Author:** ![MHRSeddighian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@MHRSeddighian](https://discuss.akka.io/u/MHRSeddighian)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 12:12am UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/help-me-how-to-use-akka-in-intelij/1149/3 "2018-05-28T00:12:56Z")

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Hi dear Patrik!  
Thank you for attention and your comment.  
I tried this and when I want to run first project (hello world), confront this error. I think some features must be installed in order to use AKKA toolkit but I don’t know what is that. Would you please help me?

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**Author:** ![patriknw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.akka.io/patriknw/32/89_2.png) [@patriknw](https://discuss.akka.io/u/patriknw)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2018, 5:09am UTC](https://discuss.akka.io/t/help-me-how-to-use-akka-in-intelij/1149/4 "2018-05-28T05:09:44Z")

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I think the only thing needed is the Scala plugin. [https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1347-scala](https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/1347-scala)