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Install 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 the following tarballs available:

  • percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz is the general tarball, compatible with any supported operating system except Ubuntu 22.04.

  • percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.35.tar.gz is the tarball for Ubuntu 22.04.

  • percona-mongodb-mongosh-6.0.15-12-x86_64.tar.gz is the tarball for mongosh shell.

To check which glibc version your system is using, run the following command:

$ ldd --version
Sample output 
ldd (GNU libc) 2.28
Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.

What tarballs to choose

The following table helps you understand what tarball to download based on the glibc version of your operating system.

Operating system Tarball to download glibc version
Ubuntu 22.04 percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.35.tar.gz glibc2.35
Ubuntu 20.04 percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz glibc2.31
Debian 11 percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz glibc2.31
Debian 10 percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz glibc2.28
Red Hat Enterprise 9 percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz glibc2.34
Red Hat Enterprise 8 percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz glibc2.28
Red Hat Enterprise 7 percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz glibc2.17

Tarball types

Type Name Description
Full percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64..tar.gz Contains binaries and libraries
Minimal percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.-minimal.tar.gz Contains binaries and libraries without debug symbols
Checksum percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.-minimal.tar.gz.sha256sum Contains the MD5 checksum to verify the integrity of the files after extraction

Preconditions

The following packages are required for the installation.

  • libcurl4

  • libsasl2-modules

  • libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit

  • libcurl

  • cyrus-sasl-gssapi

  • cyrus-sasl-plain

Procedure

The steps below describe the installation on Debian 10 (“buster”).

  1. Fetch and the binary tarballs:

    $ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-6.0/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12/binary/tarball/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz\
$ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-6.0/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12/binary/tarball/percona-mongodb-mongosh-2.1.5-x86_64.tar.gz
    2. Extract the tarballs

    $ tar -xf percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz
$ tar -xf percona-mongodb-mongosh-2.1.5-x86_64.tar.gz

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

    $ export PATH=~/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.15-12/bin/:~/percona-mongodb-mongosh-2.1.5/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.

Next steps

Connect to MongoDB

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