Installing Memcached From Source

If you encounter problems because of a bug in the RPM package, you can always follow these simple steps in installing memcached for your *nix system. The following steps have been tested to work against RHEL and CentOS operating systems.

See below.

First, Install the libevent dependency.

cd /usr/local/src
 wget http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz
 tar -xzvf libevent-1.4.9-stable.tar.gz 
 cd libevent-1.4.9-stable
 ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 make; make install

Then, install memcache.

cd /usr/local/src
 tar -xzvf memcached-1.4.5.tar.gz
 cd memcached-1.4.5
 LDFLAGS='-Wl,--rpath /usr/local/lib' ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
 make; make install

Test your installation.

memcached -u root -d
 ps -aux | grep memcached
 telnet localhost 11211 

If you connected properly then you have successfuly installed memcached. All you have to do now is find a suitable memcached client for your use.

This installation procedure usually eliminates errors generated by the dependency libevent-1.4.so.2.

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