Installing mongodb over Ubuntu 22.04

Ridiculous and even with all these adaptations it doesn’t work well. I’m not going to remake a whole server for this. Does anyone know if Fedora is working normally?

According to the installation page Fedora is not in the list of supported Linux distributions:

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As for latest versions of Linux, it appears that Ubuntu 22.04 is not the only recent distro not supported officially at this time, RHEL 9 is not listed as supported either and that came out 17 May.

Trying to shoehorn the tool onto a non-supported platform is not advised. The steps listed in this thread is putting libraries that Ubuntu has deprecated and no longer ships for a reason back on to the system. This is never a good idea. It is better to file a bug report, or vote up one that was already submitted so that the MongoDB team knows that this is a serious issue.

I get that it sucks that MongoDB is behind in making sure the release of its software does not run on platforms that were released several months prior to MongoDB’s own release, but that’'s the way it is currently. Hopefully in the future there is not this type of problem when new versions of MongoDB are released.

I just want to call out here that by installing the package mentioned above, you are introducing vulnerabilities to your system. Again, there is a reason that Ubuntu (and other distros) are no longer shipping this version.

As a test, I started a container running Ubuntu 22.04, installed this package as mentioned above, and then ran a scan with a couple of container scanning tools.

According to Snyk there are 9 vulnerabilities (6 medium severity and 3 high severity) in this version of libssl.

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According to Grype, there are 13 vulnerabilities (4 low, 6 medium, 3 high):

Sure these issues still exist under 20.04 (and any distro that ships this version), but I don’t know if people are thinking about the implications of installing deprecated versions of libraries on newer systems.

Again I would file bug requests, or upvote an existing bug request, as that shows MongoDB that this is something they should focus on. While Stennie and other people report on what they see here to others within the MongoDB organization, bug reports get more traction and notice within MongoDB.

Chris;

That is excellent news.

Version 6.0.3 has been released on github!

But the standard installation way does not work yet:

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org=6.0.3 …

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
mongodb-org-mongos : Depends: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1) but it is not installable
mongodb-org-server : Depends: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1) but it is not installable
…

Yep!

Work fine for me(set repo jammy):

wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-6.0.asc | sudo apt-key add -

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/6.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-6.0.list

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install mongodb-org

Good to know. I think I’ll let it simmer for a while before I upgrade to jammy and monogdb 6.0.

Happy to report that after far, far too many months following this issue @Toby_LL has provided the magic commands to install MongoDB v6 on Ubuntu 22.04. TYSM.

Any reason why the service wouldn’t also be installed with this approach? I’m not well versed in linux operation, but I think I have things installed correctly?

When I try to sudo service mongod start like I used to, I get mongod: unrecognized service.

systemctl list-units --all | grep mongo and see what it says.

Thanks for the quick response @Jack_Woehr. I’m running WSL2 on windows 11. When I run that command, I get System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate. Failed to connect to bus: Host is down Thinking this may be an issue with WSL2?

Sounds like it’s WSL2. I know very little about Windows and WSL2.