Installing Appium is as easy as running a single NPM command:
npm i -g [email protected]
Note
Currently, you must use [email protected] instead of just appium. Once Appium 2.0 has been
officially published, you can simply use appium.
This command installs Appium globally on your system so that you can access it from the command
line simply by running the appium command. Go ahead and run it now:
You should see some output that starts with a line like this:
That's it! If you get this kind of output, the Appium server is up and running. Go ahead and quit it (CTRL-C) and move on to the next step, where we'll install a driver for automating Android apps.