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Install MongoDB Enterprise From Tarball¶
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Overview¶
MongoDB Enterprise tarballs provide an option for installing MongoDB Enterprise Edition if the distribution packages are not appropriate for your deployment.
Installing the tarballs on a platform not listed on Supported Platforms may result in unpredictable behavior.
Install MongoDB¶
Note
To install a different version of MongoDB, please refer to that version’s documentation. For example, see version 3.2.
Install any missing dependencies.¶
To manually install MongoDB Enterprise, first install any dependencies as appropriate for your operating system:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux/CentOS
- Version 6
- Version 7
- Ubuntu & Debian
- SUSE
- Amazon Linux
Download and extract the MongoDB Enterprise packages.¶
After you have installed the required prerequisite packages, download and extract the MongoDB Enterprise tarball for your system from the MongoDB Download Center.
Ensure that the MongoDB binaries are in your PATH
.¶
The MongoDB binaries are in the bin/
directory of the tarball.
You must either:
- Copy these binaries into a directory listed in your
PATH
variable such as/usr/local/bin
, - Create symbolic links to each of these binaries from
a directory listed in your
PATH
variable, or - Modify your user’s
PATH
environment variable to include this directory.
Run MongoDB¶
Most Unix-like operating systems limit the system resources that a session may use. These limits may negatively impact MongoDB operation. See UNIX ulimit Settings for more information.
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.