Redis 4.x Cookbook

How to do it...

We will demonstrate the compilation installation of Redis in Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus). The downloading and building steps are as follows: 

1. Set up building tools:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential 

2. Create a directory and enter it for Redis:

$ mkdir /redis 
$ cd /redis 

3. Then, download Redis:

$ wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-4.0.1.tar.gz 

4. Untar it and enter the directory:

$ tar zxvf redis-4.0.1.tar.gz 
$ cd redis-4.0.1 

5. Create a directory for the Redis configuration file and copy the default configuration file into it:

$ mkdir /redis/conf 
$ cp redis.conf /redis/conf/ 

6. Building dependencies:

$ cd deps 
$ make hiredis lua jemalloc linenoise 
$ cd .. 

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