How To Install memcached on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install memcached in Fedora 36. memcached is High Performance, Distributed Memory Object Cache

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install memcached on Fedora 36.

What is `memcached`

memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.

We can use yum or dnf to install memcached on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install memcached.

Install memcached on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install memcached using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install memcached

Install memcached on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install memcached using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install memcached

How To Uninstall memcached on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the memcached package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove memcached

memcached Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/sysconfig/memcached
/usr/bin/memcached
/usr/bin/memcached-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/9043aac85f91508f786ea9e78acd8c5a421b8a
/usr/lib/systemd/system/memcached.service
/usr/share/doc/memcached
/usr/share/doc/memcached/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/memcached/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/memcached/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/memcached/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/memcached/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/memcached/README.md
/usr/share/doc/memcached/napi_ids.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/new_lru.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/protocol-binary-range.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/protocol-binary.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/protocol.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/readme.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/storage.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/threads.txt
/usr/share/doc/memcached/tls.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/memcached-tool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/memcached.1.gz

References

memcached website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install memcached on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).