How to start JMeter in GUI-mode?

Question

I'm new to unix, so maybe my problem is the one in front of the screen... I've a VM with Ubuntu Server 16.04 on it. To connect with it via rdp I installed xfce4 and xrdp. I can connect without problems.

Now I downloaded apache-jmeter-3.3.tgz (binary), unpack it and tried to start JMeter in GUI-mode -as described in the documentation- with doubleclicking on /.../jmeter/bin/jmeter. But only a Vim window pops of in which I can see the code of the file... I am not able to understand that problem. And it seems, that no one on the internet have had the same problem...

Any advices?

Answer 1

On linux:

• Open a shell command
• go to jmeter/bin folder
• type:

  ./jmeter

That's it provided you are not on a headless machine (without X)

See:

• http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/get-started.html#install
• http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/get-started.html#running