Installing Appium is as easy as running a single NPM command: 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.