4. Installation

You need to do the following steps in order to get JMeter installed and running in your computer:

• First of all you have to install Java. You need a JRE 1.6 or above installed in your machine. To do this, just go to the Oracle download site and install the package suitable for your system:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html.
• Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to point to the base directory location, where Java is installed on your machine. For Windows users:

1	JAVA_HOME=C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_20

or whatever your Java version is.

• Append Java compiler location to System Path. For Windows users:

1	C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_25\bin

to the end of the system variable, Path.

• Check that Java is installed in your machine by going to the command line and typing

1	java -version

Something like the following should come out:

1	java version "1.8.0_20"

2	Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_20-b26)

3	Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.20-b23, mixed mode)

• Download the latest version of JMeter from http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi
• Extract it to the folder C:\>JMeter for example (in Windows).
• The structure of this folder should be something like:

01	apache-jmeter-2.9

02

03	apache-jmeter-2.9\bin

04

05	apache-jmeter-2.9\docs

06

07	apache-jmeter-2.9\extras

08

09	apache-jmeter-2.9\lib\

10

11	apache-jmeter-2.9\lib\ext

12

13	apache-jmeter-2.9\lib\junit

14

15	apache-jmeter-2.9\printable_docs

• Then you can start JMeter by going to the folder C:\jmeter\apache-jmeter-2.11\bin (Windows users) and starting the program jmeter.bat.
• You should see the start screen of the JMeter GUI: