Play framework is new and in demand .I started a week back and i find it a awesome experience working with it. Installation|setup steps: -> just download it and unzip your play folder into some directory for convinience let us take it as /usr/local/ ->Path setting : now you have to export your play folder path to your bash resource edit it as $ gedit .bashrc and add your path JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.7.0 export JAVA_HOME PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/usr/local/play-1.2.4/ export PATH note: you have to add java home to your bash for proper working of play run play : you can offcourse look at the documentation play 2.0.* onwards the documentation and usage have changed so i would not write any usage instrucion it would be better to refer the docs