Installing redis natively.md

Installing redis natively

Install

Download a stable release of redis

curl -O http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz

Untar redis

tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz

Change into the redis-stable directory

cd redis-stable

Compile redis

make

Ensure the build has worked correctly

make test

Add this to your PATH

/usr/local/bin/

Copy over redis-server to the correct place

sudo cp src/redis-server /usr/local/bin/

Copy over redis-cli to the correct place

sudo cp src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin/

Bring up the server

redis-server

Talk to redis (new tab)

redis-cli
127.0.0.1:6379 > ping
PONG

Uninstall

rm -rf /usr/local/bin/redis-server 
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/redis-cli