Objective

The objective is to install MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver Linux

Operating System and Software Versions

• Operating System: - Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver
• Software: - MongoDB 3.6 or higher

Requirements

Privileged access to your Ubuntu System as root or via sudo command is required.

Difficulty

EASY

Conventions

• # - requires given linux commands to be executed with root privileges either directly as a root user or by use of sudo command
• $ - requires given linux commands to be executed as a regular non-privileged user

Instructions

Add MongoDB repository

First head over to the official MongoDB download page and take a note of the latest MongoDB version.

Note: At the time of writing there is currently no official release for Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic. From this reason we will be using Xenial version instead.

Open up terminal and enter the following linux commands while changing your desired mongoDB version and Ubuntu release codename:

$ codename=xenial
$ mongodb=3.6 

Once the above variables are set, simply enter the below command to import MongoDB release signing key:

$ wget -qO- https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-${mongodb}.asc | sudo apt-key add 

Next, add the repository:

$ sudo bash -c "echo deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu ${codename}/mongodb-org/$mongodb multiverse > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org.list"

update the repository index:

$ sudo apt update 

Install MongoDB

Use the following linux command to install MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic server:

$ sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

Start MongoDB Database

After installation the MongoDB database does not start by default. To start the database enter:

$ sudo service mongod start