How to Install and Run Redis Directly on macOS (Without Homebrew)

To install Redis without using Homebrew on my macOS, I had to build it from source. Here’s how I did it:

• I installed Xcode Command Line Tools by running (in my terminal):

    xcode-select --install

• I downloaded the Redis Source Code by running:

    curl -O https://download.redis.io/releases/redis-6.2.11.tar.gz

You can always check Redis releases to download any of your choice.

• I extracted the file I downloaded by running:

    tar -xvzf redis-6.2.11.tar.gz
    cd redis-6.2.11

• I did run the make command to compile Redis:

    make

• After the build and compilation was executed successfully, I proceeded to installing Redis:

 sudo make install

• I started the Redis server manually:

 redis-server

• I opened another terminal and connected to the Redis server by running the following:

 redis-cli

• To verify it was working, I did run the PING command:

PING

As expected, I got the PONG response.

I hope it helps. Thanks for reading 😊