Installing Redis

Installing Redis

Prerequisites:

  sudo apt-get install build-essential
  sudo apt-get install tcl8.5
  
To install redis:

  wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
  tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz
  cd redis-stable
  make
  make test (optional to check that make was successful)
  sudo make install (install redis system wide)

To make redis run as background deamon:

  cd redis-stable/utils
  sudo ./install_server.sh

To start and stop redis:

  sudo service redis_6379 start
  sudo service redis_6379 stop

You can access redis database using the following command

  redis-cli
  
You can find a detailed version https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-and-use-redis. Also don't forget redis quickstart guide http://redis.io/topics/quickstart .