Install mongodb on ubuntu 16.04 LTS
The official instruction for install MongoDB on Ubuntu system can be found here.
In the Overview part, it said:
While Ubuntu includes its own MongoDB packages, the official MongoDB Community Edition packages are generally more up-to-date.
I am curious on the “more up-to-date”, so I installed Ubuntu’s MongoDB packages first as following:
To start the MongoDB database, we can run it’s shell by typing mongo in terminal. As I didn’t install any MongoDB related packages, it’s not surprise I got the following error message:
The program ‘mongo’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt install mongodb-clients
So I install the mongodb-clients using command:
sudo apt install -y mongodb-clients
Then, I run mongo again, but got the following error message:
tian@acer:~$ mongo
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.10
connecting to: test
2017-01-04T09:05:04.949+0000 warning: Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1:27017, reason: errno:111 Connection refused
2017-01-04T09:05:04.949+0000 Error: couldn't connect to server 127.0.0.1:27017 (127.0.0.1), connection attempt failed at src/mongo/shell/mongo.js:146
exception: connect failed
After googled the error code, I realized that I need to start the MongoDB server first, but got this error.
tian@acer:~$ mongod
The program 'mongod' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install mongodb-server
Again, the mongod is not installed, so I installed it using command:
sudo apt install mongodb-server
Then, I run mongod again, and got this error message:
tian@acer:~$ mongod
mongod --help for help and startup options
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] MongoDB starting : pid=8061 port=27017 dbpath=/data/db 64-bit host=acer
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] db version v2.6.10
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] git version: nogitversion
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] build info: Linux lgw01-12 3.19.0-25-generic #26~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 24 21:16:20 UTC 2015 x86_64 BOOST_LIB_VERSION=1_58
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] allocator: tcmalloc
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] options: {}
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] exception in initAndListen: 10296
*********************************************************************
ERROR: dbpath (/data/db) does not exist.
Create this directory or give existing directory in --dbpath.
See http://dochub.mongodb.org/core/startingandstoppingmongo
*********************************************************************
, terminating
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] dbexit:
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close listening sockets...
2017-01-04T09:09:37.194+0000 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to flush diaglog...
2017-01-04T09:09:37.195+0000 [initandlisten] shutdown: going to close sockets...
2017-01-04T09:09:37.195+0000 [initandlisten] shutdown: waiting for fs preallocator...
2017-01-04T09:09:37.195+0000 [initandlisten] shutdown: lock for final commit...
2017-01-04T09:09:37.195+0000 [initandlisten] shutdown: final commit...
2017-01-04T09:09:37.195+0000 [initandlisten] shutdown: closing all files...
2017-01-04T09:09:37.195+0000 [initandlisten] closeAllFiles() finished
2017-01-04T09:09:37.195+0000 [initandlisten] dbexit: really exiting now
The error message said “dbpath (/data/db) does not exist”, I created it using command:
sudo mkdir -p data/db
Now, I check the version MongoDB Shell and found :
MongoDB shell version: 2.6.10
Then I try to install it using MongoDB’s official instruction.
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
sudo service mongod start
Check the version of MongoDB Shell, I got the following information:
tian@acer:/$ mongod –version db version v3.4.1
Official version is 3.4.1 while Ubuntu’s version is 2.6.10, it’s seems Ubuntu may drop their MongoDB packages because they are 1.5 year later than official release, while the software has released more than 20 newer versions.