Is the installation guide for Redis supposed to work in Linux?

[ShaneMaglangit]

I'm fairly new with Redis. I attempted to follow the provided guide to install dependencies.

Is the Redis installation guide using brew supposed to work in Linux/WSL?

Looking on other articles/threads, it seems like its only used for macOS while snap/apt must be used for Linux.

Perhaps we could add some sort of note to specify that it only works for macOS. Furthermore, we could probably add alternative guides / tab for other OS.

I know that contributors could simply search for installation instructions on other sites but I feel like it'll be really helpful to just have it on the same page.

[oba2311]

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[michaldziuba03]

I know this discussion is quite old, but maybe someone wonder if homebrew works on linux: it works

So Redis can be installed with brew on Linux as well (tested)

brew install redis

But I suggest to use distro package manager in first place

Debian/Ubuntu

Docs reference

curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg

echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/redis-archive-keyring.gpg] https://packages.redis.io/deb $(lsb_release -cs) main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/redis.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install redis

Arch Linux

Docs reference

sudo pacman -S redis

Fedora

Docs reference

sudo dnf install redis

Docker

I personally prefer to use databases/services just inside Docker, because I don't like running them on my local machine directly.

docker run -p 6379:6379 -d redis