How to Install MongoDB 4.0 on Fedora 28/27/26

MongoDB is a fully flexible index support and rich queries database. It is a NoSQL database. MongoDB 4.0 supports multi-document ACID transactions. After installation, you may also like our MongoDB tutorial.

MongoDB has released new stable version 4.0 with lots of major enhancements. This tutorial will help you to install MongoDB 4.0 on Fedora 28/27/26 systems.

Step 1 – Configure Dnf Repository

Add 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.

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

[Mongodb]
name=MongoDB Repository
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/amazon/2013.03/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.0.asc

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 latest stable version available.

sudo dnf install mongodb-org

Step 3 – Start MongoDB Service

MongoDB server has been installed on your Fedora systems. Let’s enable the MongoDB systemd service and start it.

sudo systemctl enable mongod.service
sudo systemctl start mongod.service

After starting the service, test if MongoDB service is running properly.

sudo systemctl status mongod.service

Step 4 – Check MongoDB Version

Use the following command to check installed MongoDB version

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.

mongo

> use mydb;

> db.test.save({ tecadmin: 1001 })

> db.test.find()

  { "_id" : ObjectId("5b449183db87ea2a1586d85f"), "tecadmin" : 1001 }

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

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