Time for action – installing PDI

These are the instructions to install PDI, for whatever operating system you may be using.

The only prerequisite to install the tool is to have JRE 6.0 installed. If you don’t have it, please download it from www.javasoft.com and install it before proceeding. Once you have checked the prerequisite, follow these steps:

  1. Go to the download page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pentaho/files/Data Integration.
  2. Choose the newest stable release. At this time, it is 4.4.0, as shown in the following screenshot:
    Time for action – installing PDI
  3. Download the file that matches your platform. The preceding screenshot should help you.
  4. Unzip the downloaded file in ...

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