Install Redis on Ubuntu

# download and make Redis
$ wget http://redis.googlecode.com/files/redis-2.6.9.tar.gz
$ sudo tar xzf redis-2.6.9.tar.gz -C /usr/lib/
$ cd /usr/lib/redis-2.6.9
$ sudo make

# create symlinks to the /usr/local/bin
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/redis-2.6.9/src/redis-server  /usr/local/bin/redis-server
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/redis-2.6.9/src/redis-cli  /usr/local/bin/redis-cli

# set up init to run redis on startup
$ cd /usr/lib/redis-2.6.9/utils
$ sudo ./install_server.sh