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How to install Redis 4 on Centos 6 / 7, Ubuntu 16 and Debian 8 (Updated)

Introduction

Redis is a flexible open-source, key value data store, used as a database, cache and message broker. Redis allows the user to store vast amounts of data without the limits of a relational database.
In order to achieve its outstanding performance, Redis works with an in-memory dataset. Depending on your use case, you can persist it either by dumping the dataset to disk every once in a while or by appending each command to a log. Persistence can be optionally disabled if you just need a feature-rich, networked, in-memory cache.

We are assuming that you have root permission, otherwise, you may start commands with “sudo”.

Note: Redis 4 is not stable yet so if you know what are you doing put your gloves on.

Requirments

As you might guess we have to install Redis 4 from source so we have to install some dependencies first:

For CentOS

yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
yum install tcl wget

For Debian and Ubuntu

apt-get install build-essential
apt-get install tcl wget

Download and Compile Redis 4

You can easily download the Redis 4 source with the command below:

wget https://codeload.github.com/antirez/redis/tar.gz/4.0-rc3

Extract the file you just downloaded with the command below:

tar xvzf 4.0-rc3

Enter the Redis directory:

cd redis-4.0-rc3/

Run the command below before start compiling:

make distclean

Now we can start compiling:

make

make test

If everything was ok, run the following command:

make install

Install your Redis-server Service:

cd utils

./install_server.sh

Now you can start and test your Redis service.

systemctl start redis_6379

systemctl status redis_6379

For testing your Redis-server you can follow the below instructions:

redis-cli

 > set test 'HugeServer'

 > get test

You should get “HugeServer” as output, if you get it then you can be sure that your Redis is working properly.
Check out Redis official website for more information and news!

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