How did I solve Redis Installation failure in CentOS 6.5?

I decided to use Redis¹ as a session store for my ExpressJS²-NodeJS³-Couchbase⁴ application.

The first step towards this was to download, compile and install Redis⁵.

The compressed tar.gz redis package is available at http://redis.io/download. I downloaded this package and extracted it in /opt directory. The installation page⁵ suggests executing the make command. In my case, the command failed with the below error:

....
make[3]: gcc: Command not found
make[3]: *** [net.o] Error 127
make[3]: Leaving directory `/opt/redis-2.8.9/deps/hiredis'
make[2]: *** [hiredis] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/opt/redis-2.8.9/deps'
make[1]: [persist-settings] Error 2 (ignored)
    CC adlist.o
/bin/sh: cc: command not found
make[1]: *** [adlist.o] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/redis-2.8.9/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

The solution for the above problem was to install gcc and make using the command: yum install gcc make.

Upon completion of the installation, I triggered, make once more. This time around, the make command failed and the errors indicated that few header files were missing.

make[1]: Entering directory `/opt/redis-2.8.9/src'
    CC adlist.o
In file included from adlist.c:34:
zmalloc.h:50:31: error: jemalloc/jemalloc.h: No such file or directory
zmalloc.h:55:2: error: #error "Newer version of jemalloc required"
make[1]: *** [adlist.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/opt/redis-2.8.9/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

After scouting Internet for solutions⁶⁷, I finally ended up with the below solution⁸.

cd /opt/redis-2.8.9/deps
make
cd ..
make

Compiling the contents of the deps (dependencies) folder before the issuing, make in the /opt/redis-2.8.9/ solved the problem.

If the make is successful, the redis-server binary would end up in the src folder (in my case, it would be /opt/redis-2.8.9/src). The server can be started using:

src/redis-server

Its time to start creating a start-up script (daemon process) and configure it to start during the runlevels 2, 3, 4 and 5.

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References:

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1. Redis ↩
2. ExpressJS ↩
3. NodeJS ↩
4. Couchbase ↩
5. Installation procedure for Redis ↩ ↩
6. Unable to compile redis unstable ↩
7. jemalloc error making redis on centos 6.4 ↩
8. jemalloc and other errors making redis on centos 6.4 ↩