Installing Percona Server for MongoDB from binary tarball

You can find links to the binary tarballs under the Generic Linux menu item on the Percona website

There are two tarballs available:

• percona-server-mongodb-<version>-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz is the general tarball, compatible with any supported operating system except Ubuntu 22.04.

• percona-server-mongodb-<version>-x86_64.glibc2.35.tar.gz is the tarball for Ubuntu 22.04.

Preconditions

The following packages are required for the installation.

On Debian and UbuntuOn Red Hat Enterprise Linux and derivatives

• libcurl4

• libsasl2-modules

• libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit

• libcurl

• cyrus-sasl-gssapi

• cyrus-sasl-plain

Check that they are installed in your operating system. Otherwise install them.

Procedure

1. Fetch and extract the binary tarball. For example, if you are running Debian 10 (“buster”), use the following command:

   $ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-5.0/percona-server-mongodb-5.0.2-1/binary/tarball/percona-server-mongodb-5.0.2-1-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz\
   $ tar -xf percona-server-mongodb-5.0.2-1-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz
   

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

   $ export PATH=~/percona-server-mongodb-5.0.2-1/bin/:$PATH
   

3. Create the default data directory:

   $ mkdir -p /data/db
   

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

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Last update: December 8, 2022
Created: December 8, 2022