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JMeter Installation

We assume that you have already installed ‘jdk 1.6’ or above on your machine and successfully configured the environment variables required to run and compile java programs.

However, to verify whether you have Java installed on your system. Open your console and execute the following java commands as per the operating system you are working on.

Operating System	Task	Command
Windows	Open Command Console	c:> java -version
Linux	Open Command Terminal	$ java -version
Mac	Open Terminal	machine: ~ tutoraspire$ java -version

The latest version of JMeter can be downloaded from:

Download Latest version of JMeter

• There are two versions of JMeter available. Download according to the operating system you are working on.

File	Description
apache-jmeter-4.0.tgz	JMeter for Linux/Unix.
apache-jmeter-4.0.zip	JMeter for Windows

• After downloading JMeter, you need to extract the files at a convenient directory.
• The following image shows the structure of the directories and files –



To launch JMeter in GUI mode – go to the bin directory and double click on the respective executable file as per the operating system you are working on. For example:

Operating System	Task
Windows	Click on ApacheJMeter.jar
Linux	Click on ApacheJMeter.sh
Mac	Click on ApacheJMeter.sh

• The following image shows the defaultApache JMeter interface –