How to Install MongoDB 4.0 on CentOS/RHEL 7/6

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MongoDB has released new stable version 4.0 with lots of major enhancements. This tutorial will help you to install MongoDB 4.0 on CentOS 7/6 and Red Hat 7/6 systems.

Step 1 – Add MongoDB Yum Repository

Add the following content in yum repository configuration file mongodb.repo as per your required MongoDB version and system architecture. For this article, we are using MongoDB 4.0 repository.

CentOS and RedHat systems Only

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo

[MongoDB]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=http://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

Fedora users can install it directory from its official yum repositories.

Step 2 – Install MongoDB Server

Let’s use the yum package manager to install mongodb-org package, it will automatically install all its dependencies. To install any specific revision of MongoDB specify package name with version like mongodb-org-4.0.0. The following command will install the latest stable version available.

yum install mongodb-org

Step 3 – Start MongoDB Service

Package mongodb-org-server provided MongoDB init script, Use that script to start service.

systemctl start mongod.service    # For CentOS 7 
service mongod restart            # For CentOS 6/5 

Configure MongoDB to autostart on system boot.

systemctl enable mongod.service    # For CentOS 7 
chkconfig mongod on                # For CentOS 6/5 

Step 4 – Check MongoDB Version

Use the following command to check installed MongoDB version

[[email protected] ~]#  mongod --version

db version v4.0.0
git version: 3b07af3d4f471ae89e8186d33bbb1d5259597d51
OpenSSL version: OpenSSL 1.0.0-fips 29 Mar 2010
allocator: tcmalloc
modules: none
build environment:
    distmod: amazon
    distarch: x86_64
    target_arch: x86_64

Connect MongoDB using the command line and execute some test commands for checking proper working.

[[email protected] ~]#  mongo

> use mydb;

> db.test.save( { a: 1 } )

> db.test.find()

  { "_id" : ObjectId("54fc2a4c71b56443ced99ba2"), "a" : 1 }

Congratulation’s You have successfully installed mongodb server on your system. For practice only you may use MongoDB browser shell.

References:
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/installation/