Here we will install a single Redis instance running on one server. To get Redis, we will perform the following steps:
- First navigate your way out to the Redis IO download page: https://redis.io/download. Unless you are an advanced user of Redis, you will want the stable release (Redis 4.0.8 as of the time of writing).
- Download Redis, create a local directory, and move it there:
sudo mkdir /local sudo chown $USER:$USER /local cd /local mv ~/Downloads/redis-4.0.8.tar.gz .
- Now we can untar it, and it should create a directory and expand the files into it:
tar -zxvf redis-4.0.8.tar.gz
- Many people find it more convenient to rename this directory:
mv redis-4.0.8/ redis
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