Install MongoDB Community on Ubuntu using .tgz Tarball

Download the tarball.

After you have installed the required prerequisite packages, download the MongoDB Community tgz tarball from the following link:

➤ MongoDB Download Center

1. In the Version dropdown, select the version of MongoDB to download.

2. In the Platform dropdown, select your operating system version and architecture.

3. In the Package dropdown, select tgz.

4. Click Download.

Extract the files from the downloaded archive.

Using an archive manager program or the tar command, extract the files.

For example, to extract from the terminal shell, you can use the following tar command:

tar -zxvf mongodb-linux-*-5.0.29.tgz

Optional. Ensure the binaries are in a directory listed in your PATH environment variable.

The MongoDB binaries are in the <mongodb-install-directory>/bin/ directory.

To avoid having to specify the path to the MongoDB binaries, you can create symbolic links to the binaries from a directory listed in your PATH variable, such as /usr/local/bin. Update /path/to/the/mongodb-directory/ with your installation directory as appropriate.

sudo ln -s  /path/to/the/mongodb-directory/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

Alternatively, you can copy these binaries into a directory listed in your PATH variable such as /usr/local/bin.

sudo cp <mongodb-install-directory>/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

Install the MongoDB Shell (mongosh).

Install mongosh then use the MongoDB Shell to connect to your deployment.

Create the data and log directories.

Create a directory where the MongoDB instance stores its data. For example:

sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mongo

Create a directory where the MongoDB instance stores its log. For example:

sudo mkdir -p /var/log/mongodb

The user that starts the MongoDB process must have read and write permission to these directories. For example, if you intend to run MongoDB as yourself:

sudo chown `whoami` /var/lib/mongo     # Or substitute another user
sudo chown `whoami` /var/log/mongodb   # Or substitute another user

Run MongoDB.

To run MongoDB, run the mongod process at the system prompt.

mongod --dbpath /var/lib/mongo --logpath /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log --fork

For details on the command-line options --dbpath and --logpath, see Options.

Verify that MongoDB has started successfully.

Verify that MongoDB has started successfully by checking the process output for the following line in the log file /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log:

[initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017

You may see non-critical warnings in the process output. As long as you see the log line shown above, you can safely ignore these warnings during your initial evaluation of MongoDB.

Begin using MongoDB.

Start a mongosh session on the same host machine as the mongod. You can run mongosh without any command-line options to connect to a mongod that is running on your localhost with default port 27017.

mongosh

For more information on connecting using mongosh, such as to connect to a mongod instance running on a different host and/or port, see the mongosh documentation.

To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. For the driver documentation, see Start Developing with MongoDB.