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I'm working on the front end for a web app, but I'm trying to learn as much of the backend setup as I can as well. I am setting up redis on a new computer myself, but running into a few hiccups.

The wget command cannot be found, so I assume it Linux only? I am following these instructions to install redis on Mac OS 10.7. I have redis 2.0.0 installed, but while attempting to install 2.4.4 using the same commands, I am told redis-server, redis-cli, redis-benchmark cannot be found, and I can't copy them to /usr/local/bin.

I could not find an update command to bring redis up to the most recent version. I don't think it should be this difficult to install the most recent version on redis on Mac OS, but I can't see what I am doing wrong.

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So far as I know, typing:

 $ brew upgrade redis

should work, where $ indicates your command line. If it complains about HomeBrew not being installed, you can obtain that here. Brew is an excellent package manager, and a great way of taking care of your files.

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Thank you! I forgot I had homebrew installed before. MAkes everything a lot easier.
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If you're not using brew, then these steps will help you get up to date.

First, find the location of your installed redis-server instance before updating. In my case, it was in /usr/local/bin/, but it might also be in /usr/bin/. If it's not here, you can type which redis-server to find the location.

Next, download the redis tar file from https://redis.io/download, then install it from the directory it downloaded to:

cd Downloads tar xzf redis-X.Y.Z.tar.gz cd redis-X.Y.Z make test make

Next, we'll move the new installed redis to the location where the current instance is running:

sudo mv src/redis-server /usr/local/bin sudo mv src/redis-cli /usr/local/bin

Now you should be ready to use redis-server and redis-cli in the new version.

PS - I also moved the redis-benchmark, redis-sentinel, redis-check-aof, and redis-check-dump files because they were also already in /usr/local/bin.

Ref: http://jasdeep.ca/2012/05/installing-redis-on-mac-os-x/

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It would be better to follow this way.

$ brew update

$brew upgrade redis

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$brew upgrade redis will automatically run an update on brew first.
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Create a bash file...

cd ~ nano .update_redis

Go into the tmp directory and download the latest stable version

cd /tmp wget http://download.redis.io/redis-stable.tar.gz

Decompress the files

tar xvzf redis-stable.tar.gz

Compile

cd redis-stable make

Copy the bin programs

cp src/redis-cli /usr/bin/ cp src/redis-server /usr/bin/ cp src/redis-benchmark /usr/bin/

Set Permissions

chmod 755 /usr/bin/redis-cli chmod 755 /usr/bin/redis-server chmod 755 /usr/bin/redis-benchmark

Execute

bash .update_redis
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Thanks for sharing an answer that doesn't rely on Homebrew, but could you add more detail around what the "paste this" block does? There are a lot of steps there, and developers should know what they are doing before executing all of it.

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