.. _tarball: ========================================================= Installing Percona Server for MongoDB from Binary Tarball ========================================================= You can find the link to the binary tarball under the *Generic Linux* menu item on the `Percona Server for MongoDB download page `_. There are two tarballs available: - ``percona-server-mongodb-3.6.19-8.0-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz`` is the general tarball, compatible with any operation system but for Centos 6. - ``percona-server-mongodb-3.6.19-8.0-x86_64.glibc2.12.tar.gz`` is the tarball for Centos 6. 1. Fetch and extract the correct binary tarball. For example, if you are running Debian 10 ("buster"): .. code-block:: bash $ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-3.6/percona-server-mongodb-3.6.19-8.0/binary/tarball/percona-server-mongodb-3.6.19-8.0-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz\ $ tar -xf percona-server-mongodb-3.6.19-8.0-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz #. Add the location of the binaries to the ``PATH`` variable: .. code-block:: bash export PATH=~/percona-server-mongodb-3.6.19-8.0/bin/:$PATH #. Create the default data directory: .. code-block:: bash mkdir -p /data/db #. Make sure that you have read and write permissions for the data directory and run ``mongod``.