Building Redis 3.0.7

The following build instructions have been tested with Redis 3.0.7 release on RHEL7, RHEL6, SLES12, SLES11 and Ubuntu 16.04 on IBM z Systems.

General Notes:
i) When following the steps below please use a standard permission user unless otherwise specified.

ii) A directory /<source_root>/ will be referred to in these instructions, this is a temporary writeable directory anywhere you'd like to place it.

Step 1 : Install the Dependencies

Following are the build dependencies for Redis.

• gcc
• which
• tcl
• make
• gcc-c++
• git

Dependencies Installation Notes:

SLES12:

    sudo zypper install -y gcc gcc-c++ make which git tcl

RHEL7

    sudo yum install -y gcc gcc-c++ make which git tcl

RHEL6

    sudo yum install -y gcc gcc-c++ make which git tcl

SLES11

	sudo zypper install -y gcc gcc-c++ make git tcl

Ubuntu 16.04

    sudo apt-get install -y gcc g++ make tcl git 

Step 2 : Clone Redis Git repository

Clone the Redis git repository and checkout 3.0.7 branch.

	cd /<source_root>/
    git clone https://github.com/antirez/redis.git
	cd /<source_root>/redis
	git checkout 3.0.7

Step 3 : Build, Install and Test Redis

• To avoid build, dependency, compiler and cache related issues it is advisable to use make distclean rather than make . Below command builds Redis.

        make distclean
  

• To test Redis and install it, run the following commands.

        make test
        sudo make install
  

Step 4 : Start Redis Server

By default Redis Server runs on 6379 port. You can run the service in background by using below command.

    redis-server &

Step 5 : Verify Installation

You can verify Installation of Redis by using Redis client command line - redis-cli and running few commands.

For example:

    bash-4.2#redis-cli
    127.0.0.1:6379> ping
    PONG
    127.0.0.1:6379> set foo bar
    OK
    127.0.0.1:6379> get foo
    "bar"
    127.0.0.1:6379> exit

References:

https://github.com/antirez/redis/blob/unstable/README.md

http://redis.io/