How to manually starting Jmeter GUI

1.Download the Jmeter binary from the following link http://jakarta.apache.org/site/downloads/downloads_jmeter.cgi
2.Extract the zip on to your convenient local directory.
3.Go to the extracted directory example : /home/kiran/Software/jakarta-jmeter-2.4/bin
4.If you are using Windows, double click on the jmeter.bat else for Linux run the command ./jmeter.sh from the shell prompt.
5.After running the above command following GUI will be opened