This documentation is for the end of life version of Percona Server for MongoDB and is no longer supported. You may want to see the current documentation.

Installing Percona Server for MongoDB from Binary Tarball

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 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”):

   $ 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
   

2. Add the location of the binaries to the PATH variable:

   export PATH=~/percona-server-mongodb-4.0.20-14/bin/:$PATH`
   

3. For Debian and Ubuntu operating systems only: Update the path to the SASL libraries using the following command:

   export SASL_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/sasl2
   

4. Create the default data directory:

   mkdir -p /data/db
   

5. Make sure that you have read and write permissions for the data directory and run mongod.