I needed to install memcached on my local development server the other day and hit several snags during the process when I couldn’t find a clear guide. It doesn’t help that there’s another package floating around called “memcache” which is not the same as “memcached”.

Fortunately I found this post in German which Google kindly translated for me, and it solved my problems.

Since the translation screws up some of the code, I thought I would post the steps here in English in case anyone finds it useful. (more…)