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Install MongoDB Community Edition on SUSE¶
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Overview¶
Use this tutorial to install MongoDB Community Edition on SUSE Enterprise
Linux 12 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.
Note
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and potentially other SUSE distributions ship with virtual memory address space limited to 8 GB by default. You must adjust this in order to prevent virtual memory allocation failures as the database grows.
The SLES packages for MongoDB automatically adjust these limits in their default init script. If you are starting MongoDB manually without the provided init script, are using your own custom init script, or are using the TGZ tarball release, you must make these changes yourself.
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.
Import the MongoDB public key¶
Configure the package management system (zypper).¶
Add the repository so that you can install MongoDB using zypper.
Changed in version 3.0: MongoDB Linux packages are in a new repository beginning with 3.0.
For versions of MongoDB earlier than 3.6¶
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:
Install the MongoDB packages.¶
To install the latest stable version of MongoDB, issue the following command:
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:
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:
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¶
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
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:
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.
Remove Packages.¶
Remove any MongoDB packages that you had previously installed.
Remove Data Directories.¶
Remove MongoDB databases and log files.