Installing MongoDB and using the shell

MongoDB can be easily installed on any platform. On Ubuntu 16.04, we need to perform some processes before running the apt-get command:

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 0C49F3730359A14518585931BC711F9BA15703C6 

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/3.4 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.4.list

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install mongodb-org

It will ask for confirmation of installation in the last step; press Y. Once the installation is done, we need to start the MongoDB daemon using the following command:

systemctl start mongod

All the preceding commands are to be run by the root. If the user is not root, use the prepend sudo keyword before each command.

Note

We can also download MongoDB manually from the website and run the server with the ~/mongodb/bin/mongod/ command. For this, we need to create an init script because the server will...