Problem scenario
You want to install Varnish on a Debian/Ubuntu Linux server. How do you do this?
Solution
Run these commands:
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install gcc python-docutils pkg-config libreadline-dev libncurses5-dev libpcre3-dev #*
curl http://varnish-cache.org/_downloads/varnish-6.0.0.tgz > /tmp/varnish-6.0.0.tgz
sudo cp /tmp/varnish-6.0.0.tgz /opt/
cd /opt
sudo tar xvzf varnish-6.0.0.tgz
cd varnish-6.0.0
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
varnishd -V
* This website says:
'On Debian, you might also have to do:
export PCRE_LIBS="-L/usr/lib -lpcre"
export PCRE_CFLAGS=-I/usr/include/pcre # '
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