Learning Redis

Installing Redis on Mac OS

Installing Redis is really simple on a Mac OS. Follow these steps and you are good to go:

1. Download the package from Internet. For this, you can use the following command: wget http://download.redis.io/releases/redis-2.8.3.tar.gz
2. Untar the compressed tar xzf redis-2.8.3.tar.gz file.
3. This will create a folder; go to the folder by issuing the cd redis-2.8.3 command.
4. Compile the file by issuing the make command. This will compile the binaries and create a folder structure, as shown in the following screenshot:
   

   Folder structure for a Mac distribution

5. Type the src/redis-server command; this will start the server, as shown in the following ...