How to install the latest version of Redis on Ubuntu

This article could almost just be sudo apt-get install redis-server but as much as I wish unfortunately it is not.

OK, so the above command will work and you will get a version of Redis installed on your machine, but it isn’t a very recent version, this may or may not be enough for your needs, but I wanted to be able to pass in parameters when I start the server, this is something you can only do in more recent versions.

This is what you type, I will explain it after;

$ sudo apt-get install -y python-software-properties
$ sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:rwky/redis
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y redis-server

• Line 1 - So we want to add a new repository that contains the latest version of Redis, the easiest way to do this requires add-apt-repository, which most likely isn’t installed on your machine, so the first thing we want to do is install python-software-properties, this gives us access to add-apt-repository.
• Line 2 - Next we want to set up this new repository.
• Line 3 - Now we want to update apt so it sees any changes we have made.
• Line 4 - Finally we want to install redis-server, now the latest version will be installed. If you are wondering the -y flag just saves me having to manually OK things I was going to OK anyways, this is really handy if you are running these steps as part of a provisioning step (which I was)