Installing memcached for a django project

Question

From the django docs:

After installing Memcached itself, you'll need to install a memcached binding. There are several python memcached bindings available; the two most common are python-memcached and pylibmc.

The pylibmc docs have their own requirements:

-libmemcached 0.32 or later (last test with 0.51)
-zlib (required for compression support)
-libsasl2 (required for authentication support)

So it seems to me that I need to do the following:

-install memcached
-install libmemcached
-install zlib
-install libsas12
-install pylibmc

How/where can I do this? I've been used to just pip installing whatever I need but I can't even tell which of these are python packages. Are these bundled together anywhere?

Answer 1

Detailed explanation here http://ilian.i-n-i.org/caching-websites-with-django-and-memcached/

The link above includes explanations for how to install Memcached on Ubuntu, how to configure it as cache engine in your Django project and how to use it.

Answer 2

Just do pip install python-memcached and you should be good.

As for installing memcached itself, it depends on the platform you are on.

• Windows - http://pureform.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/installing-memcache-on-windows-for-php/
• OS X - brew install memcached
• Debian/Ubuntu - sudo apt-get install memcached

On OS X/Linux, just run memcached in the command line.