How To Install mongodb-server on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mongodb-server
on Debian 9.
What is mongodb-server
mongodb-server is:
MongoDB is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented data store that’s easy to deploy, manage and use. It’s network accessible, written in C++ and offers the following features:
* Collection oriented storage - easy storage of object-style data
* Full index support, including on inner objects
* Query profiling
* Replication and fail-over support
* Efficient storage of binary data including large objects (e.g. videos)
* Auto-sharding for cloud-level scalability
High performance, scalability, and reasonable depth of functionality are the goals for the project.
This package contains the server itself (mongod) and the sharding server/load-balancer (mongos).
There are three methods to install mongodb-server
on Debian 9. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install mongodb-server Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mongodb-server
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mongodb-server
Install mongodb-server Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mongodb-server
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mongodb-server
Install mongodb-server Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install mongodb-server
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mongodb-server
How To Uninstall mongodb-server on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mongodb-server
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mongodb-server
Uninstall mongodb-server And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mongodb-server
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mongodb-server
Remove mongodb-server Configurations and Data
To remove mongodb-server
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mongodb-server
Remove mongodb-server configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mongodb-server
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mongodb-server
Dependencies
mongodb-server have the following dependencies:
- mongodb-clients
- adduser
- lsb-base
- init-system-helpers
- libboost-chrono1.62.0
- libboost-filesystem1.62.0
- libboost-program-options1.62.0
- libboost-regex1.62.0
- libboost-system1.62.0
- libboost-thread1.62.0
- libc6
- libgcc1
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mongodb-server
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.