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Overview

Use this tutorial to install MongoDB Community Edition on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 and 15 using .rpm packages.

Platform Support

This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.

Packages

MongoDB provides officially supported packages in their own repository. This repository contains the following packages:

Package Name Description
mongodb-org A metapackage that will automatically install the four component packages listed below.
mongodb-org-server Contains the mongod daemon and associated configuration and init scripts.
mongodb-org-mongos Contains the mongos daemon.
mongodb-org-shell Contains the mongo shell.
mongodb-org-tools Contains the following MongoDB tools: mongoimport bsondump, mongodump, mongoexport, mongofiles, mongoperf, mongorestore, mongostat, and mongotop.

The mongodb-org-server package provides an initialization script that starts mongod with the /etc/mongod.conf configuration file.

See Run MongoDB Community Edition for details on using this initialization script.

These packages conflict with the mongodb, mongodb-server, and mongodb-clients packages provided by Ubuntu.

The default /etc/mongod.conf configuration file supplied by the packages have bind_ip set to 127.0.0.1 by default. Modify this setting as needed for your environment before initializing a replica set.

Install MongoDB Community Edition

Note

To install a different version of MongoDB, please refer to that version’s documentation. To install the previous version, see the tutorial for version 3.4.

This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.

1

Import the MongoDB public key.

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sudo rpm --import https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-3.6.asc
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Add the MongoDB repository.

Add the repository so that you can install MongoDB.

Changed in version 3.0: MongoDB Linux packages are in a new repository beginning with 3.0.

Use the command appropriate for your version of SUSE:

Note

SUSE 15 support was added with MongoDB v3.6.16.

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sudo zypper addrepo --gpgcheck "https://repo.mongodb.org/zypper/suse/15/mongodb-org/3.6/x86_64/" mongodb
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sudo zypper addrepo --gpgcheck "https://repo.mongodb.org/zypper/suse/12/mongodb-org/3.6/x86_64/" mongodb

To install MongoDB packages from a previous release series such as 3.4, you can specify the release series in the repository configuration.

For example, to restrict your SUSE 12 system to the 3.4 release series, use the following command:

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sudo zypper addrepo --no-gpgcheck "https://repo.mongodb.org/zypper/suse/12/mongodb-org/3.4/x86_64/" mongodb
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Install the MongoDB packages.

To install the latest stable version of MongoDB, issue the following command:

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sudo zypper -n install mongodb-org

To install a specific release of MongoDB, specify each component package individually and append the version number to the package name, as in the following example:

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sudo zypper install mongodb-org-3.6.16 mongodb-org-server-3.6.16 mongodb-org-shell-3.6.16 mongodb-org-mongos-3.6.16 mongodb-org-tools-3.6.16

You can specify any available version of MongoDB. However zypper will upgrade the packages when a newer version becomes available. To prevent unintended upgrades, pin the packages by running the following command:

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sudo zypper addlock mongodb-org-3.6.16 mongodb-org-server-3.6.16 mongodb-org-shell-3.6.16 mongodb-org-mongos-3.6.16 mongodb-org-tools-3.6.16

Previous versions of MongoDB packages use a different repository location. Refer to the version of the documentation appropriate for your MongoDB version.

Run MongoDB Community Edition

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.

The MongoDB instance stores its data files in /var/lib/mongo and its log files in /var/log/mongodb by default, and runs using the mongod user account. You can specify alternate log and data file directories in /etc/mongod.conf. See systemLog.path and storage.dbPath for additional information.

If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you must modify the access control rights to the /var/lib/mongo and /var/log/mongodb directories to give this user access to these directories.

Procedure

1

Start MongoDB.

You can start the mongod process by issuing the following command:

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sudo service mongod start
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Verify that MongoDB has started successfully

You can verify that the mongod process has started successfully by checking the contents of the log file at /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log for a line reading

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[initandlisten] waiting for connections on port <port>

where <port> is the port configured in /etc/mongod.conf, 27017 by default.

You can optionally ensure that MongoDB will start following a system reboot by issuing the following command:

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sudo chkconfig mongod on
3

Stop MongoDB.

As needed, you can stop the mongod process by issuing the following command:

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sudo service mongod stop
4

Restart MongoDB.

You can restart the mongod process by issuing the following command:

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sudo service mongod restart

You can follow the state of the process for errors or important messages by watching the output in the /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log file.

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Begin using MongoDB.

Start a mongo shell on the same host machine as the mongod. Use the --host command line option to specify the localhost address and port that the mongod listens on:

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mongo --host 127.0.0.1:27017

Later, to stop MongoDB, press Control+C in the terminal where the mongod instance is running.

Uninstall MongoDB Community Edition

To completely remove MongoDB from a system, you must remove the MongoDB applications themselves, the configuration files, and any directories containing data and logs. The following section guides you through the necessary steps.

Warning

This process will completely remove MongoDB, its configuration, and all databases. This process is not reversible, so ensure that all of your configuration and data is backed up before proceeding.

1

Stop MongoDB.

Stop the mongod process by issuing the following command:

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sudo service mongod stop
2

Remove Packages.

Remove any MongoDB packages that you had previously installed.

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sudo zypper remove $(rpm -qa | grep mongodb-org)
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Remove Data Directories.

Remove MongoDB databases and log files.

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sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb
sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongo

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