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Linux users can download the tar.gz and unpack it with the following command:
tar xzvf openejb-3.0.0.tar.gz
Congratulations, you've installed OpenEJB.
If you've unpacked OpenEJB into the directory C:\openejb-3.0.0, for example, then this directory is your OPENEJB_HOME directory. The OPENEJB_HOME directory is referred to in various parts of the documentation, so it's good to remember where it is.
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For Windows users, that looks like this:
C:\openejb-3.0.0> bin\openejb
For UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X users, that looks like this:
user@host openejb-3.0.0# ./bin/openejb
You really only need to know two commands to use OpenEJB, deploy and start. Both are completely documented and have examples.
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