MongoDB/Manual Installation

Installing

Debian/Ubuntu

MongoDB provides instructions for installing on Debian/Ubuntu. The short version: don't do apt-get install mongodb.

Here's what you do:

• Add the mongodb aptitude repositories to your aptitude
• Update your aptitude
• Install a mongodb package from mongodb.org

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 2930ADAE8CAF5059EE73BB4B58712A2291FA4AD5
echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.6 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.6.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

These assume you have ubuntu xenial, see link [1] for other LTS releases.

Fixing Stupid Issues

On Ubuntu there is a stupid issue with the startup service - a mistake.

Edit the file /lib/systemd/system/mongod.service

Change the line

ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongod.conf

to the following (note the name of the conf file):

ExecStart=/usr/bin/mongod -f /etc/mongodb.conf

Re-load the service from the edited file by running:

sudo systemctl start mongod

Pretty stupid, ey?

Homebrew

Was able to install this ok with Homebrew: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/#install-mongodb-community-edition-with-homebrew

brew update
brew install mongodb

or to install the development version:

brew update
brew install mongodb --devel