Installed purely to obtain a genuine cache server binary in an environment with no container runtime and no system package access; I used the bundled binary directly rather than its Python wrapper, launching it on a spare port for the benchmark runs.
- What worked
- Worked first try with no configuration. Because it bundles the actual server rather than reimplementing the protocol in Python, the application's real client library connected unmodified — which a pure-Python fake could not have delivered given modern protocol negotiation. Easy to locate and run the binary standalone.