How To Install mongo-tools on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mongo-tools
on Debian 9.
What is mongo-tools
mongo-tools is:
mongodb-tools is a collection of tools for administering MongoDB instances. The package includes the following tools:
- bsondump: display BSON files in a human-readable format
- mongoimport: convert data from JSON, TSV or CSV and insert them into a collection
- mongoexport: write an existing collection to CSV or JSON format
- mongodump/mongorestore: dump MongoDB backups to disk in .BSON format, or restore them to a live database
- mongostat: monitor live MongoDB servers, replica sets, or sharded clusters
- mongofiles: read, write, delete, or update files in GridFS
- mongooplog: replay oplog entries between MongoDB servers
- mongotop: monitor read/write activity on a mongo server
There are three methods to install mongo-tools
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 mongo-tools Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install mongo-tools
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install mongo-tools
Install mongo-tools Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install mongo-tools
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install mongo-tools
Install mongo-tools 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 mongo-tools
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install mongo-tools
How To Uninstall mongo-tools on Debian 9
To uninstall only the mongo-tools
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove mongo-tools
Uninstall mongo-tools And Its Dependencies
To uninstall mongo-tools
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove mongo-tools
Remove mongo-tools Configurations and Data
To remove mongo-tools
configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge mongo-tools
Remove mongo-tools configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove mongo-tools
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge mongo-tools
Dependencies
mongo-tools have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mongo-tools
package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.