getting error while launching Jmeter 2.9

Question

getting below error while launching JMeter.bat file from

C:\Program Files\JMeter\apache-jmeter-2.9\bin

I have set JAVA_HOME as below:

JAVA_HOME = C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_51\bin

but I'm getting the following error:

Error: Unable to access jarfile ApacheJMeter.jar errorlevel=1 Press any key to continue . . .

Answer 1

You may have accidentally downloaded the source distribution or there was an error unpacking the downloaded archive.

Make sure there's ApacheJMeter.jar in the JMeter bin folder. Also, there should be dozens of JAR files in the JMeter lib folder.