.. _tarball:

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Installing Percona Server for MongoDB from Binary Tarball
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You can find links to the binary tarball under the *Generic Linux* menu item on the `Percona website`_

There are two tarballs available:

- ``percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz`` is the general tarball, compatible with any `supported operating system <https://www.percona.com/services/policies/percona-software-support-lifecycle#mongodb>`_ except CentOS 6
- ``percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14-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-4.0/percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14/binary/tarball/percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz\
      $ tar -xf percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz

#. Add the location of the binaries to the ``PATH`` variable: 
   
   .. code-block:: bash
   
      export PATH=~/percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14/bin/:$PATH`

#. *For Debian and Ubuntu operating systems only*: Update the path to the SASL libraries using the following command:
   
   .. code-block:: bash

      export SASL_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sasl2
    
#. 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|.

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