PHP 5.4 & Laravel Class 'Memcached' not found

Question

I realize there are about 10 of these questions out there but none fit me completely.

Steps completed:

1. Installed memcache
2. installed php memcac

Answer 1

If you are in a ubuntu environment, try to install Memcached with this:

sudo apt-get install php5-memcached

After that restart your server with

sudo service lighttpd restart

or

sudo service apachectl2 restart

or

sudo service nginx restart