Install specific version of MongoDb on Ubuntu

install_mongoDb

First you have to download the 32bit or 64bit Linux binaries from here and unzip the contents to /usr/local.


# cd /tmp
# curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-i686-2.4.9.tgz
# sudo tar -zxf /tmp/mongodb-linux-i686-2.4.9.tgz -C /usr/local


Then you need to configure some symbolic links.

#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb-linux-i686-2.0.1 /usr/local/mongodb
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/bsondump /usr/local/bin/bsondump
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongo /usr/local/bin/mongo
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod /usr/local/bin/mongod
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongodump /usr/local/bin/mongodump
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongoexport /usr/local/bin/mongoexport
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongofiles /usr/local/bin/mongofiles
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongoimport /usr/local/bin/mongoimport
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongorestore /usr/local/bin/mongorestore
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongos /usr/local/bin/mongos
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongosniff /usr/local/bin/mongosniff
#sudo ln -s /usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongostat /usr/local/bin/mongostat


All you need to do now is to setup the Linux service which will be used to start MongoDB server, to do so download this script from here.

-- in case the link goes away just download the file content from here
-- https://gist.github.com/BernardoSilva/104a7aeb04920fd52755#file-mongod
wget https://github.com/ijonas/dotfiles/raw/master/etc/init.d/mongod
#sudo mv mongod /etc/init.d/mongod
#sudo chmod +x /etc/init.d/mongod


After this, you’ll need to create a new system user ‘mongodb’ and prepare some folders.

#sudo useradd mongodb
#sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mongodb
#sudo mkdir -p /var/log/mongodb
#sudo chown mongodb.mongodb /var/lib/mongodb
#sudo chown mongodb.mongodb /var/log/mongodb

And finally you need to activate you MongoDB service’s by adding it to your system’s run-level. That way the service will startup during the boot sequence and stop nicely during the OS shutdown procedure.

#sudo update-rc.d mongod defaults