Installing JMeter
Perform the following steps to install JMeter on your system:
- Navigate to http://jmeter.apache.org/download_jmeter.cgi.
- Download version 2.11 by clicking on the ZIP or gz archive under the Binaries section.
- If you don't find this version there, you can download it from the older archives page at http://archive.apache.org/dist/jmeter/binaries/.
- Extract the archive to the location of your chosen directory.
We refer to this location as JMETER_HOME
throughout the book.
One line install
Assuming you have curl
installed on your system, then you can do the following:
For the tar gzip
archive:
curl -L -O http://mirror.metrocast.net/apache//jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-2.11.tgz && tar xzf apache-jmeter-2.11.tgz
For the ZIP archive:
curl -L -O http://mirror.metrocast.net/apache//jmeter/binaries/apache-jmeter-2.11.zip && unzip apache-jmeter-2.11.zip