How to install iReport in Linux machine

In this post you will see how to install iReport in Linux machine.

1:- First check out which version of iReport you want to install, to see the iReport versions you can use bellow link.

http://community.jaspersoft.com/project/ireport-designer/releases

Now download iReport-5.5.1.tar.gz from bellow link 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ireport/files/iReport/iReport-5.5.1/iReport-5.5.1.tar.gz/download

2:- After downloading iReport go to the directory where you have downloaded it. In my case it is in Downloads directory.

$ cd /Downloads/

And if you want to copy in other directory you can use mv (move) or cp (copy) command.

$ mv/Downloads/ iReport-5.5.1.tar.gz     /opt/ iReport-5.5.1.tar.gz

3:- Extract iReport-5.5.1 directory from zipped file using bellow command.
 

$ tar -zxvf iReport-5.5.1.tar.gz

Where,

1. -z : Work on gzip compression automatically when reading archives.
2. -x : Extract archives.
3. -v : Produce verbose output i.e. display progress and extracted file list on screen.
4. -f : Read the archive from the archive to the specified file. In this example, read backups.tar.gz archive.
5. -t : List the files in the archive.

4:- Now to start iReport open a terminal and type the bellow command.

$ /Downloads/iReport-5.5.1/bin/ireport


Now if your iReport starts that means you have successfully installed iReport.