Error When Installing Magento - Could not validate a connection to Elasticsearch

I'm installing Magento 2 for the first time following this tutorial https://www.javatpoint.com/how-to-install-magento-2-using-composer. XAMPP is installed (with Apache and MySQL running), the database is setup on PHPMyAdmin, but when I try to run php bin/magento setup:install (step 23 in the tutorial) I get the error: Could not validate a connection to Elasticsearch. No alive nodes found in your cluster

How can I fix this?

Download Elastic Search first on your system -

https://www.elastic.co/downloads/past-releases/elasticsearch-7-6-0

After Downloading follow this step -

• Extract the .zip file
• Open Terminal or command prompt and go to the extracted path
• run command .\bin\elasticsearch.bat

if this does not work just go to the extracted folder and opened the elasticsearch.bat file inside the bin folder.

and the install Magento with setup: install command.

Hope it helps!!