Error: Unable to find a match: redis-server

[chongshengdz]

Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/redis.repo with the following contents.
For Rocky Linux 8 / AlmaLinux 8 / etc...
[Redis]
name=Redis
baseurl=http://packages.redis.io/rpm/rockylinux8
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1

[root@server1 ~]# sudo yum install redis-server
Redis 21 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
No match for argument: redis-server
Error: Unable to find a match: redis-server

[adamiBs]

This should've been fixed please check @chongshengdz

[chongshengdz]

Total 9.1 MB/s | 24 MB 00:02
Running transaction check
Transaction check succeeded.
Running transaction test
Transaction test succeeded.
Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Running scriptlet: redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64 1/1
Installing : redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64 1/1
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file '/etc/redis/sentinel'
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file '/etc/redis/sentinel/sentinel.conf'

Verifying : redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64 1/1

Installed:
redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64

Complete!
[root@server1 ~]# sudo systemctl enable redis-server
Failed to enable unit: Unit file redis-server.service does not exist.

it looks like something went wrong during installation and try to enable redis-server.
operating system: AlmaLinux 9

[chongshengdz]

@adamiBs new bugs, please fix it

[chongshengdz]

to avoid "Failed to enable unit: Unit file redis-server.service does not exist."
please make sure whether to run "sudo yum install redis-server" or "sudo yum install redis"
and "sudo systemctl enable redis-server" or "sudo systemctl enable redis"
and "sudo systemctl start redis-server" or "sudo systemctl start redis"
your coding in README is really un-professional.

[jackk01]

yum install redis

https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/install/install-stack/rpm/

[chongshengdz]

yum install redis

https://redis.io/docs/latest/operate/oss_and_stack/install/install-stack/rpm/

Running transaction
Preparing : 1/1
Running scriptlet: redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64 1/1
Installing : redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64 1/1
Running scriptlet: redis-8.0.1-1.x86_64 1/1
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file '/etc/redis/sentinel'
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file '/etc/redis/sentinel/sentinel.conf'

[chongshengdz]

For Rocky Linux 8 and AlmaLinux 8

[Redis]
name=Redis
baseurl=http://packages.redis.io/rpm/rockylinux8
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
Run the following commands:

curl -fsSL https://packages.redis.io/gpg > /tmp/redis.key
sudo rpm --import /tmp/redis.key
sudo yum install epel-release
sudo yum install redis

[root@server1 ~]# sudo yum install redis
Last metadata expiration check: 0:01:33 ago on Wed 14 May 2025 02:37:45 AM EDT.
Dependencies resolved.

Package Arch Version Repository Size

Installing:
redis x86_64 5.0.3-5.module_el8.4.0+2583+b9845322 appstream 926 k
Enabling module streams:
redis 5

too bad, almalinux 8.10 is still using old package

[chongshengdz]

conclusions
AlmaLinux 8 is not working, still finding old package 5.0.3-5.
AlmaLinux 9 is working, but still need some bugs to fix while installing.
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file '/etc/redis/sentinel'
chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file '/etc/redis/sentinel/sentinel.conf'

[Peter-Sh]

Hi @chongshengdz!

Thanks for reporting!

Alma/Rocky 8

Regarding installation of newer redis version on AlmaLinux/RockyLinux 8

These distributions use dnf modules system (now deprecated) which prevents installation of newer versions of redis.

To install the latest redis from repo, you can either disable redis module

sudo dnf -y module disable redis

or install directly by pointing to the Redis repository

sudo dnf install redis --repo=Redis

We’re considering updating the documentation to reflect this. Thanks again for bringing it to our attention!

Selinux errors

Seems that you're getting chcon: can't apply partial context to unlabeled file because selinux-policy-targeted package is missing in your system.

You may check it out by using

rpm -qa | grep selinux-policy

This doesn't break redis installation as long as SELinux remains disabled.

The Redis package does not explicitly require selinux-policy or other related packages, since missing policies usually indicate that the user intentionally disabled SELinux, and would not expect to get it back.

Let me know if this is your case. I think we could improve handling systems with disabled SELinux and removed policies.

[chongshengdz]

how to make sure slave in redis 8.0.1 is working?
why are keyspace_hits and keyspace_misses always 0 ?

[Peter-Sh]

how to make sure slave in redis 8.0.1 is working?

You can use info command and look at the # Replication section

why are keyspace_hits and keyspace_misses always 0 ?

They are expected to be 0 on a replica, if it's not used for reading keys by clients.

If you think you've found a bug in redis 8, it's better to create an issue here: https://github.com/redis/redis/ as these questions seems unrelated to the current issue.
And if you would like to open an issue, please include more details.

[chongshengdz]

there is no read from a replica on redis 8.0.1, but it does read from a replica on redis 7.4+