Installing Kettle
You can download Pentaho Data Integration (PDI), also known as Kettle, from Sourceforge.net.
Go to http://www.pentaho.com/download/ if you are looking for Pentaho Enterprise Edition (EE) of PDI.
Prerequisites
PDI _requires the _Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 7. You can obtain a JRE for free from Oracle.
Installation
PDI does not require installation. Simply unpack the zip file into a folder of your choice. On Unix-like operating systems, you will need to make the shell scripts executable by using the chmod command:
cd data-integration chmod +x *.sh
Running
PDI _comes with a graphical user interface called _Spoon and with scripts to execute transformations, Jobs and other tools. Continue the tutorial to know them.