Obtaining iReport
iReport can be downloaded from its home page at http://ireport.sourceforge.net/ by clicking on the Download menu item at the top left main menu, then clicking on the link for the latest release, and finally clicking on a mirror. It can be downloaded as a source file, as a ZIP file, as a gzip'ed TAR file, or as a self-extracting Windows executable.
To install iReport, either execute the self-extracting executable, or extract the ZIP, or gzip'ed TAR file to any directory. This will create a directory called iReport-x.y.z directory, where x, y, and z represent the major, minor, and point release version of iReport.
To execute iReport, simply execute the iReport.bat (for Microsoft Windows systems) or iReport.sh (for *nix systems) file from the command line or by double clicking on it from a file manager. The following screenshot illustrates how iReport looks when it is opened for the first time:
