Following are few easy steps with my experience with installing moses toolkit I am doing it for ubuntu 64 bit (linux) system you can make an analogy for other installations. 1) Download the binary moses from here http://www.statmt.org/moses/?n=Moses.Packages In my case I used this - http://www.statmt.org/~jie/linux/moses-2.1-1/moses_2.1-1_amd64.deb 2) Install that with following command in the relevant directory sudo dpkg -i http://www.statmt.org/~jie/linux/moses-2.1-1/moses_2.1-1_amd64.deb This install moses and all other relevant tools like GIZA and Language Modeler (IRSTLM) in "/opt" directory. You can copy that to wherever you want or leave it as it is there. 3) Now goto /moses folder in /opt and move all contents of /giza++-v1.0.7 to a new folder /tools in /moses. You can avoid this, but then need to make some changes in training script below, so don't avoid it for the sake of introduction. 4) Creating Language Model: Your environment is set up. Now ...