{
  "id": "binaries",
  "title": "Install Redis Stack from binaries",
  "url": "https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/install/archive/install-stack/binaries/",
  "summary": "How to install Redis Stack using tarballs",
  "tags": [
    "docs",
    "operate",
    "stack",
    "oss"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2026-04-01T08:10:08-05:00",
  "page_type": "content",
  "content_hash": "25047b1d77e1e391e8c63a28d62e8bb0fe951b02abd1d8a91cd52f3caf31e5de",
  "sections": [
    {
      "id": "start-redis-stack-server",
      "title": "Start Redis Stack Server",
      "role": "overview",
      "text": "Install the openssl libraries for your platform. For example, on a Debian or Ubuntu instance run:\n\n\nsudo apt install libssl-dev\n\n\nAfter untarring or unzipping your redis-stack-server download, you can start Redis Stack Server as follows:\n\n\n/path/to/redis-stack-server/bin/redis-stack-server"
    },
    {
      "id": "add-the-binaries-to-your-path",
      "title": "Add the binaries to your PATH",
      "role": "content",
      "text": "You can add the redis-stack-server binaries to your `$PATH` as follows:\n\nOpen the file `~/.bashrc` or `~/zshrc` (depending on your shell), and add the following lines.\n\n\nexport PATH=/path/to/redis-stack-server/bin:$PATH\n\n\nIf you have an existing Redis installation on your system, then you can choose override those override those PATH variables as before, or you can choose to only add redis-stack-server binary as follows:\n\n\nexport PATH=/path/to/redis-stack-server/bin/redis-stack-server:$PATH\n\n\nIf you're running redis-stack-server on a mac, please ensure you have openssl installed, via [homebrew](https://brew.sh/).\n\nNow you can start Redis Stack Server as follows:\n\n\nredis-stack-server"
    }
  ],
  "examples": []
}