Installing Apache JMeter JMeter is distributed as a set of zip (or tar or tar-gz) archive files. The files are called: jakarta-jmeter-_bin.zip - JMeter binaries jakarta-jmeter-_lib.zip - 3rd party jar files jakarta-jmeter-_src.zip - JMeter source jakarta-jmeter-_api.zip - JMeter Javadoc Installing JMeter runtime: Download the _bin and _lib files Unpack the archives into the same directory structure The other archives are not needed to run JMeter.