Question

Installing redis is really easy. I have done it on several VM. But on one instance, I am facing the following problem.

[root@server redis-2.4.2]# make
cd src && make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/redis-2.4.2/src'
MAKE hiredis
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/user/redis-2.4.2/deps/hiredis'
cc -c -std=c99 -pedantic -O3 -fPIC -Wall -W -Wstrict-prototypes -Wwrite-strings    -g -ggdb  net.c
make[2]: cc: Command not found
make[2]: *** [net.o] Error 127
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/user/redis-2.4.2/deps/hiredis'
make[1]: *** [dependencies] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/redis-2.4.2/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Is there any other way to install redis?

Answer 1

make[2]: cc: Command not found

This means that c compiler is uninstalled, or that it’s not in $PATH.

Try which cc, this should tell the directory where cc is installed, if it is.

Otherwise, you can use your distro repository to install it.

In Ubuntu: sudo aptitude install build-essential.