Installing Redis - Try It Yourself

Installing Redis

📖 Scenario: You want to use Redis, a fast in-memory database, on your computer to store and retrieve data quickly. Before you can use Redis, you need to install it properly.

🎯 Goal: Learn how to install Redis on your system step-by-step so you can start using it for your projects.

📋 What You'll Learn

Understand how to download Redis source code

Know how to compile Redis from source

Learn how to start the Redis server

Verify Redis installation by connecting to the Redis CLI

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Redis is widely used in web applications to speed up data access by storing data in memory.

💼 Career

Knowing how to install and run Redis is essential for backend developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators.

1

Download Redis source code

Use the command wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz to download the latest stable Redis source code archive.

Redis

# Use wget to download Redis source code
# Your code here

Need a hint?

If wget is not installed, you can use curl -O http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz instead.

2

Extract the Redis archive

Extract the downloaded Redis archive using the command tar xzf redis-stable.tar.gz.

Redis

wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
# Extract the Redis archive
# Your code here

Need a hint?

This command unpacks the archive into a folder named redis-stable.

3

Compile Redis source code

Change directory to redis-stable using cd redis-stable and compile Redis by running make.

Redis

wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
tar xzf redis-stable.tar.gz
# Change directory and compile Redis
# Your code here

Need a hint?

The make command builds the Redis server and CLI tools.

4

Start Redis server and verify installation

Start the Redis server by running src/redis-server and in a new terminal, connect to Redis using src/redis-cli to verify it is running.

Redis

wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz
tar xzf redis-stable.tar.gz
cd redis-stable
make
# Start Redis server and connect with redis-cli
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Running src/redis-cli opens a prompt where you can type Redis commands like PING.