Installing Memcached On VPS

mkdir -p /root/source
cd /root/source

wget http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
rpm -ivh rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm

yum -y install libevent* ( required for memcached binary )
yum -y install memcached* ( memcached binary required for libmemcached )

gem source -a http://gems.github.com

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combination of libmemcached-0.25.14 and memcached-0.13 gem is found to be a working stable combination.
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wget http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/libmemcached-0.25.14.tar.gz
tar -xzvf libmemcached-0.25.14.tar.gz
cd libmemcached-0.25.14
./configure && make && make install

cd /root/source
wget http://blog.evanweaver.com/files/memcached-0.13.gem
gem install memcached-0.13.gem

gem install memcache-client—version=1.6.3