Installing Redis on Ubuntu (Documentation)

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Installing redis-server

Updating System

1. $ sudo apt-get update
2. $ sudo apt-get install build-essential
3. $ sudo apt-get install tcl8.5

Installing Redis-Server

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

$ tar xzf redis-stable-tar.gz

$ redis-stable

$ make test

$ cd src && sudo make install

$ cd utils

$ sudo ./install_server-sh

Default Settings/Paths.

Selected config: Port : 6379 Config file : /etc/redis/6379.conf Log file : /var/log/redis_6379.log Data dir : /var/lib/redis/6379 Executable : /usr/local/bin/redis-server Cli Executable : /usr/local/bin/redis-cli

Set Redis to automatically start at boot

$ sudo update-rc.d redis 6379

Operations.

$ sudo service redis_6379 status|start|restart|stop