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description: How to install Redis Stack using tarballs
linkTitle: Binaries
title: Install Redis Stack from binaries
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## Start Redis Stack Server

Install the openssl libraries for your platform. For example, on a Debian or Ubuntu instance run:

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sudo apt install libssl-dev
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After untarring or unzipping your redis-stack-server download, you can start Redis Stack Server as follows:

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/path/to/redis-stack-server/bin/redis-stack-server
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### Add the binaries to your PATH

You can add the redis-stack-server binaries to your `$PATH` as follows:

Open the file `~/.bashrc` or `~/zshrc` (depending on your shell), and add the following lines.

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export PATH=/path/to/redis-stack-server/bin:$PATH
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If 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:

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export PATH=/path/to/redis-stack-server/bin/redis-stack-server:$PATH
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If you're running redis-stack-server on a mac, please ensure you have openssl installed, via [homebrew](https://brew.sh/).

Now you can start Redis Stack Server as follows:

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redis-stack-server
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