Install MongoDB Community using .tgz Tarball on SUSE

Overview

The following tutorial downloads the .tgz tarball directly toinstall MongoDB 4.2 Community Edition on SUSE Linux EnterpriseServer (SLES) 12. Although the recommended procedure to install isthrough the package manager,you can also install by directly downloading the .tgz file.

Considerations

Note

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and potentially other SUSE distributions shipwith virtual memory address space limited to 8 GB by default. You _must_adjust this in order to prevent virtual memory allocation failures as thedatabase grows.

The SLES packages for MongoDB automatically adjust these limits intheir default init script. If you are starting MongoDB manually withoutthe provided init script, are using your own custom init script, orare using the TGZ tarball release, you must make these changesyourself.

Platform Support

MongoDB supports SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12.

This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. SeeSupported Platforms for more information.

Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) - Unsupported

MongoDB does not support WSL, and users on WSL have encounteredvarious issues installing on WSL. For examples, see:

Production Notes

Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider theProduction Notes document.

MongoDB Version

The following tutorial installs MongoDB 4.2 Community Edition.

To install a different version of MongoDB, please refer to thatversion’s documentation. For example, to install version 4.0, see thetutorial for version 4.0.

Prerequisites

MongoDB .tar.gz tarballs require installing the followingdependencies:

  1. zypper install libcurl4 libopenssl1_0_0

Tip

Depending on your user permission, you may need to use sudo toperform the operation.

Procedure

Download the MongoDB .tgz tarball.

Download the tarball for your system from the MongoDB Download Center.

Extract the files from the downloaded archive.

For example, from a system shell, you can extract using the tar command:

  1. tar -zxvf mongodb-linux-*-4.2.1.tgz

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

The MongoDB binaries are in the bin/ directory of the tarball.You can either:

  • Copy the binaries into a directory listed in your PATHvariable, such as /usr/local/bin (Update/path/to/the/mongodb-directory/ with your installationdirectory as appropriate)
  1. sudo cp /path/to/the/mongodb-directory/bin/* /usr/local/bin/
  • Create symbolic links to the binaries from a directory listed inyour PATH variable, such as /usr/local/bin (Update/path/to/the/mongodb-directory/ with your installationdirectory as appropriate):
  1. sudo ln -s  /path/to/the/mongodb-directory/bin/* /usr/local/bin/

Run MongoDB

Create the data and log directories.

Note

Depending on user permissions, you may need to sudo mkdir -p<directory> instead of mkdir -p <directory>. Use or omitsudo as appropriate. See your linux man pages for informationon mkdir and sudo.

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

  1. sudo mkdir -p /var/lib/mongo

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

  1. sudo mkdir -p /var/log/mongodb

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

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

Run MongoDB.

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

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

For details on the command-line options —dbpath and —logpath, seeOptions.

Verify that MongoDB has started successfully.

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

  1. [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port 27017

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

Begin using MongoDB.

Start a mongo shell on the same host machine as themongod. You can run the mongo shellwithout any command-line options to connect to amongod that is running on your localhost with defaultport 27017:

  1. mongo

For more information on connecting using the mongoshell, such as to connect to a mongod instance runningon a different host and/or port, see The mongo Shell.

To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides GettingStarted Guides in various driver editions. SeeGetting Started for the available editions.

For information on CRUD (Create,Read,Update,Delete) operations, see: