Installing Memcached

Login to your server as ‘deploy’ and the do the following to install memcached.


  # Download the i386 Red Hat EL 4 rpms from Dag
  wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/libevent/libevent-devel-1.1a-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
  wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/libevent/libevent-1.1a-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
  wget http://dag.wieers.com/packages/memcached/memcached-1.1.12-2.el4.rf.i386.rpm
  
  # Install Dag's gpg key
  sudo rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
  
  # Install the rpms
  sudo rpm -i libevent*.rpm memcached*.rpm
  
  # start the service
  sudo /sbin/service memcached start
  
  # flag service to start at boot
  sudo /sbin/chkconfig --levels 235 memcached on
  
  # install Robot Coop memcache client
  sudo gem install memcache-client

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