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:
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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. -
percona-mongodb-mongosh-<version>-x86_64.tar.gz
is the tarball formongosh
shell.
Preconditions¶
The following packages are required for the installation.
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libcurl4
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libsasl2-modules
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libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit
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libcurl
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cyrus-sasl-gssapi
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cyrus-sasl-plain
Procedure¶
The steps below describe the installation on Debian 10 (“buster”).
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Fetch and the binary tarballs:
2. Extract the tarballs$ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-6.0/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.2-1/binary/tarball/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.2-1-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz\ $ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-6.0/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.2-1/binary/tarball/percona-mongodb-mongosh-1.6.0-x86_64.tar.gz
$ tar -xf percona-server-mongodb-6.0.2-1-x86_64.glibc2.17.tar.gz $ tar -xf percona-mongodb-mongosh-1.6.0-x86_64.tar.gz
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Add the location of the binaries to the
PATH
variable:$ export PATH=~/percona-server-mongodb-6.0.2-1/bin/:~/percona-mongodb-mongosh-1.6.0/bin/:$PATH
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Create the default data directory:
$ mkdir -p /data/db
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Make sure that you have read and write permissions for the data directory and run
mongod
.
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Created: December 7, 2022