MongoDB: Install Mongo Client and Mongo Shell in Ubuntu, CentOS

MongoDB: Install Mongo Client and Mongo Shell in Ubuntu, CentOS

The MongoDB client, also known as mongo shell, is a command line interface to MongoDB. The mongo shell is included in MongoDB package, but to connect to MongoDB we only need to install MongoDB client.

You need to run all these commands as root or use sudo.

For Installing MongoDB 4, Please refer this document.

Install Mongo Shell and Client tools on Ubuntu

Import the public key :

From a terminal, issue the following command to import the MongoDB public GPG Key.

wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc |  apt-key add -

The operation should respond with an OK.

However, if you receive an error indicating that gnupg is not installed, you can:

Install gnupg and its required libraries using the following command:

apt-get install gnupg

Create a list file for MongoDB.

Create the list file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.2.list for your version of Ubuntu.

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.2 multiverse" |  tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.2.list

Update package database.

Issue the following command to reload the local package database:

 apt-get update

 root@tomcat-deployment:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease
Ign:2 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.2 InRelease
Get:3 https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu bionic/mongodb-org/4.2 Release [3951 B]
Hit:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster InRelease

 Install Mongo tools on Ubuntu

 apt-get install mongodb-org-tools

 root@tomcat-deployment:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get install mongodb-org-tools
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mongodb-org-tools
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 57.0 MB of archives.

 Install Mongo shell on Ubuntu

 apt-get install -y mongodb-org-shell

root@tomcat-deployment:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get install -y mongodb-org-shell
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  mongodb-org-shell
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Check the mongo tool:

 mongo --version

root@tomcat-deployment:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# mongo --version
MongoDB shell version v4.2.6
git version: 20364840b8f1af16917e4c23c1b5f5efd8b352f8
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.1.1d  10 Sep 2019
allocator: tcmalloc
modules: none
build environment:
    distmod: ubuntu1804
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64
root@tomcat-deployment:/etc/apt/sources.list.d#

Install Mongo Shell and Client tools on CentOS

Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb-org-4.2.repo file.

[mongodb-org-4.2]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/4.2/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.2.asc

Install the latest version of mongo shell:

 yum install -y  mongodb-org-shell mongodb-org-tools

 Check the mongo tool:

 mongo --version

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