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Install MongoDB Enterprise From Tarball¶
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Overview¶
Compiled versions of MongoDB Enterprise for Linux provide a simple option for installing MongoDB for other Linux systems without supported packages.
Install MongoDB¶
Note
To install a version of MongoDB prior to 3.2, please refer to that version’s documentation. For example, see version 3.0.
Install any missing dependencies.¶
To manually install MongoDB Enterprise, first install any dependencies as appropriate.
Download and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages.¶
After you have installed the required prerequisite packages, download
and install the MongoDB Enterprise packages from
https://mongodb.com/download/. The MongoDB
binaries are located in the bin/
directory of the archive. To download
and install, use the following sequence of commands.
Ensure the location of the MongoDB binaries is included in the PATH
variable.¶
Once you have copied the MongoDB binaries to their target location,
ensure that the location is included in your PATH
variable. If it is
not, either include it or create symbolic links from the binaries to a
directory that is included.
Run MongoDB¶
Create the data directory.¶
Before you start MongoDB for the first time, create the directory to
which the mongod
process will write data. By default, the
mongod
process uses the /data/db
directory. If you create
a directory other than this one, you must specify that directory in the
dbpath
option when starting the mongod
process
later in this procedure.
The following example command creates the default /data/db
directory:
Run MongoDB.¶
To run MongoDB, run the mongod
process at the system prompt.
If necessary, specify the path of the mongod
or the data
directory. See the following examples.
Run without specifying paths¶
If your system PATH
variable includes the location of the
mongod
binary and if you use the default data directory
(i.e., /data/db
), simply enter mongod
at the system prompt:
Begin using MongoDB.¶
To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. See Getting Started for the available editions.
Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider the Production Notes document.
Later, to stop MongoDB, press Control+C
in the terminal where the
mongod
instance is running.