need recent version of libmemcached on aws ec2

Question

The yum repo available on aws ec2 instances only has an old version of libmemcached: v 1.0.8.

Can anyone tell me how to get a more recent version, like 1.0.18, installed on an aws ec2 instance?

Which external yum repo can I add to install a more recent versioneven if it is unsupported?

EC2: yum info libmemcached

Using username "ec2-user". Authenticating with public key "imported-openssh-key" __| __|_ ) _| ( / Amazon Linux AMI ___|\___|___| https://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/2015.09-release-notes/ No packages needed for security; 1 packages available Run "sudo yum update" to apply all updates. [ec2-user@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx ~]$ yum info libmemcached Loaded plugins: priorities, update-motd, upgrade-helper Available Packages Name : libmemcached Arch : x86_64 Version : 1.0.8 Release : 2.6.amzn1 Size : 246 k Repo : amzn-main/2015.09 Summary : Client library and command line tools for memcached server URL : http://libmemcached.org/ License : BSD Description : libmemcached is a C/C++ client library and tools for the memcached server : (http://memcached.org/). It has been designed to be light on memory : usage, and provide full access to server side methods. : : It also implements several command line tools: : : memcapable Checking a Memcached server capibilities and compatibility : memcat Copy the value of a key to standard output : memcp Copy data to a server : memdump Dumping your server : memerror Translate an error code to a string : memexist Check for the existance of a key : memflush Flush the contents of your servers : memparse Parse an option string : memping Test to see if a server is available. : memrm Remove a key(s) from the server : memslap Generate testing loads on a memcached cluster : memstat Dump the stats of your servers to standard output : memtouch Touches a key 

EC2: cat /etc/yum.repos.d/amzn-main.repo

[ec2-user@ip-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx~]$ cat /etc/yum.repos.d/amzn-main.repo [amzn-main] name=amzn-main-Base mirrorlist=http://repo.$awsregion.$awsdomain/$releasever/main/mirror.list mirror_expire=300 metadata_expire=300 priority=10 failovermethod=priority fastestmirror_enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-amazon-ga enabled=1 retries=5 timeout=10 report_instanceid=yes [amzn-main-debuginfo] name=amzn-main-debuginfo mirrorlist=http://repo.$awsregion.$awsdomain/$releasever/main/debuginfo/mirror.list mirror_expire=300 metadata_expire=300 priority=10 failovermethod=priority fastestmirror_enabled=0 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-amazon-ga enabled=0 retries=5 timeout=10 report_instanceid=yes 

Thanks!

Answer 1

You could try Remi's RPM repo. http://blog.remirepo.net/pages/Config-en

Note that it depends on EPEL and that you need to explicitly enable it when installing packages:

yum --enablerepo=remi install XXX 

NOTE: not sure if it is compatible with Amazon Linux though. If not, consider utilizing CentOS 7 which has 1.0.16 by default.

Answer 2

I'm still trying to get a solution using an external repo as @Jukka suggests but until I do, I was able to compile it with the following:

sudo -i yum remove libmemcached.x86_64 yum install bzr.x86_64 yum install gcc-c++ mkdir -p /tmp/memcached cd /tmp/memcached wget https://launchpad.net/libmemcached/1.0/1.0.18/+download/libmemcached-1.0.18.tar.gz tar -zxvf libmemcached-1.0.18.tar.gz cd /tmp/memcached/ bzr branch lp:libmemcached cd libmemcached ./bootstrap.sh autoreconf NOTE YOU GET THE FOLLOWING ERROR BUT CONTINUE ANYWAY: "./bootstrap.sh:315: An attempt was made to set an invalid VENDOR=" cd ../libmemcached-1.0.18 ./configure make make test make install