The first step to getting up and running with Griffon is to install the distribution. To do so follow these steps:

If Griffon is working correctly you should now be able to type griffon in the terminal window and see output similar to the below:


Welcome to Griffon 0.9.5-rc2 - http://griffon.codehaus.org/
Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0
Griffon home is set to: /usr/local/griffon-0.9.5-rc2
No script name specified. Use 'griffon help' for more info