Installing Memcached on Mac OS X
How to install Memcached on Mac OS X#
There are two ways to install memcached
on Mac OS X. One is the easy way, the other is the harder but more flexible way.
Installation using brew Package Manager#
Installing memcached using brew is the easy way, and it is just a matter of a single command.
$ brew install memcached
There you have memcached installed on your Mac!
Installation from Source#
Installation from source code is a little bit harder, but you have more flexibility.
Memcached is depended on libevent
, so install it first. Get the latest stable libevent
source from http://libevent.org.
$ cd /tmp
$ wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
$ cd libevent-2.0.18-stable
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Next install memcached
. Get the latest stable memcached
source from http://memcached.org.
$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.13.tar.gz
$ cd memcached-1.4.13
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install
Starting memcached#
Memcached listens on port 11211
by default, to change it, use the -p
option.
$ memcached -p 8000
To run memcached
as a daemon (background process), instead of sitting at your terminal, use the -d
option.
$ memcached -d -p 8000