Sometime back I wrote a post on how to install MongoDB on Mac OS X. However most of the development usually happens on Unix/Linux machines. So today we will look into how to install MongoDB on linux system.
Install MongoDB on Linux
Current version of MongoDB is 3.4.7 and I will be installing 64-bit version through command line. The steps to install MongoDB on Linux are very simple, just follow the below terminal commands to download and install it.
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- Download and extract the MongoDB binaries
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root@dev [/home/journal]# mkdir mongodb root@dev [/home/journal]# cd mongodb/ root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb]# curl -O https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7.tgz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 82.7M 100 82.7M 0 0 1704k 0 0:00:49 0:00:49 --:--:-- 1334k root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb]# tar xvf mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7.tgz mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/README mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/MPL-2 mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/GNU-AGPL-3.0 mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongodump mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongorestore mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongoexport mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongoimport mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongostat mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongotop mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/bsondump mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongofiles mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongooplog mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongoreplay mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongoperf mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongod mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongos mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7/bin/mongo |
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- Add MongoDB bin directory to PATH variable
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root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb]# mv mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.4.7 mongodb root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb]# cd mongodb root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb]# echo $PATH /usr/local/jdk/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/root/bin root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb]# export PATH=$PATH:/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin |
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- Create directory for MongoDB files and start it
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root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb]# mkdir data root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb]# cd bin root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# ./mongod --dbpath /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data & [1] 30387 root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# 2014-08-04T13:56:05.916+0000 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=30387 port=27017 dbpath=/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data 64-bit host=dev.journaldev.com 2014-08-04T13:56:05.917+0000 [initandlisten] db version v3.4.7 2014-08-04T13:56:05.917+0000 [initandlisten] git version: 255f67a66f9603c59380b2a389e386910bbb52cb 2014-08-04T13:56:05.917+0000 [initandlisten] build info: Linux build12.nj1.10gen.cc 2.6.32-431.3.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jan 3 21:39:27 UTC 2014 x86_64 BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_49 2014-08-04T13:56:05.917+0000 [initandlisten] allocator: tcmalloc 2014-08-04T13:56:05.917+0000 [initandlisten] options: { storage: { dbPath: "/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data" } } 2014-08-04T13:56:05.922+0000 [initandlisten] journal dir=/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data/journal 2014-08-04T13:56:05.922+0000 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed 2014-08-04T13:56:06.064+0000 [FileAllocator] allocating new datafile /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data/local.ns, filling with zeroes... 2014-08-04T13:56:06.064+0000 [FileAllocator] creating directory /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data/_tmp 2014-08-04T13:56:06.067+0000 [FileAllocator] done allocating datafile /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data/local.ns, size: 16MB, took 0.001 secs 2014-08-04T13:56:06.069+0000 [FileAllocator] allocating new datafile /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data/local.0, filling with zeroes... 2014-08-04T13:56:06.070+0000 [FileAllocator] done allocating datafile /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data/local.0, size: 64MB, took 0.001 secs 2014-08-04T13:56:06.071+0000 [initandlisten] build index on: local.startup_log properties: { v: 1, key: { _id: 1 }, name: "_id_", ns: "local.startup_log" } 2014-08-04T13:56:06.071+0000 [initandlisten] added index to empty collection 2014-08-04T13:56:06.071+0000 [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017 |
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- Use “ps” command to confirm MongoDB is running
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root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# ps -eaf | grep mongo root 7199 28009 0 14:09 pts/0 00:00:00 grep mongo root 30387 28009 0 13:56 pts/0 00:00:02 ./mongod --dbpath /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/data root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# |
That’s it, our MongoDB is installed on linux machine and running fine.
However, you might want to export the PATH through your user profile i.e .bash_profile or .profile, so that it’s not gone once you quit the terminal.
Execute MongoDB commands
Now let’s connect to the MongoDB and run some mongodb commands to make sure it’s running fine.
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root@dev [~]# cd /home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin/ root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# ./mongo MongoDB shell version: 3.4.7 connecting to: test > show dbs admin (empty) local 0.078GB > use journaldev switched to db journaldev > db.names.save({"id":123,"name":"Pankaj"}) WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 }) > db.names.find() { "_id" : ObjectId("53df918adbef24e88560fa5b"), "id" : 123, "name" : "Pankaj" } > db.datas.save({}) WriteResult({ "nInserted" : 1 }) > show collections datas names system.indexes > show dbs admin (empty) journaldev 0.078GB local 0.078GB > exit bye root@dev [/home/journal/mongodb/mongodb/bin]# |
As you can see that everything seems to be smooth and I am able to save and retrieve data from MongoDB database.
If you quit the terminal from which the mongodb was started, it will be stopped. Use nohup command to start it, so that it won’t stop even after you close the terminal.