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Install MongoDB Community Edition on SUSE¶
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Overview¶
Use this tutorial to install MongoDB Community Edition on SUSE Linux 12
using .rpm
packages. While SUSE distributions include their own
MongoDB Community Edition packages, the official MongoDB Community
Edition packages are generally more up to date.
Platform Support
This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.
Packages¶
MongoDB provides officially supported packages in their own repository. This repository contains the following packages:
mongodb-org |
A metapackage that will automatically install
the four component packages listed below. |
mongodb-org-server |
Contains the mongod daemon and associated
configuration and init scripts. |
mongodb-org-mongos |
Contains the mongos daemon. |
mongodb-org-shell |
Contains the mongo shell. |
mongodb-org-tools |
Contains the following MongoDB tools: mongoimport
bsondump , mongodump , mongoexport ,
mongofiles , mongooplog ,
mongoperf , mongorestore , mongostat ,
and mongotop . |
These packages conflict with the mongodb
, mongodb-server
, and
mongodb-clients
packages provided by Ubuntu.
The default /etc/mongod.conf
configuration file supplied by the
packages have bind_ip
set to 127.0.0.1
by default. Modify
this setting as needed for your environment before initializing a
replica set.
Init Scripts¶
The mongodb-org
package includes various init scripts, including the init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/mongod
. You can use these
scripts to stop, start, and restart daemon processes.
The package configures MongoDB using the /etc/mongod.conf
file in
conjunction with the init scripts. See
the Configuration File
reference for documentation of settings available in the configuration file.
There are no init scripts for mongos
. You can use the mongod
init script to derive your own mongos
init script for use in such
environments. See the mongos
reference for configuration details.
Note
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and potentially other SUSE distributions ship with virtual memory address space limited to 8 GB by default. You must adjust this in order to prevent virtual memory allocation failures as the database grows.
The SLES packages for MongoDB adjust these limits in the default scripts, but you will need to make this change manually if you are using custom scripts and/or the tarball release rather than the SLES packages.
Install MongoDB Community Edition¶
Note
To install a version of MongoDB prior to 3.2, please refer to that version’s documentation. For example, see version 3.0.
This installation guide only supports 64-bit systems. See Platform Support for details.
Configure the package management system (zypper
).¶
Add the repository so that you can install MongoDB using zypper
.
Changed in version 3.0: MongoDB Linux packages are in a new repository beginning with 3.0.
For the latest stable release of MongoDB¶
Run the command appropriate for your version of SUSE:
- SUSE 12
For versions of MongoDB earlier than 3.2¶
To install MongoDB packages from a previous release series, such as 3.0, you can specify the release series in the repository configuration. For example, to restrict your SUSE 12 system to the 3.0 release series, use the following command:
Install the MongoDB packages and associated tools.¶
When you install the packages, you choose whether to install the current release or a previous one. This step provides the commands for both.
To install the latest stable version of MongoDB, issue the following command:
To install a specific release of MongoDB, specify each component package individually and append the version number to the package name, as in the following example:
You can specify any available version of MongoDB. However zypper
will upgrade the packages when a newer version becomes available. To
prevent unintended upgrades, pin the packages by running the following
command:
Previous versions of MongoDB packages use a different repository location. Refer to the version of the documentation appropriate for your MongoDB version.
Run MongoDB Community Edition¶
Prerequisites¶
The MongoDB instance stores its data files in /var/lib/mongo
and its log files in /var/log/mongodb
by default,
and runs using the mongod
user account. You can specify alternate log and data file
directories in /etc/mongod.conf
. See systemLog.path
and storage.dbPath
for additional information.
If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you
must modify the access control rights to the /var/lib/mongo
and
/var/log/mongodb
directories to give this user access to these
directories.
Procedure¶
Verify that MongoDB has started successfully¶
You can verify that the mongod
process has started
successfully by checking the contents of the log file at
/var/log/mongodb/mongod.log
for a line reading
where <port>
is the port configured in /etc/mongod.conf
, 27017
by default.
You can optionally ensure that MongoDB will start following a system reboot by issuing the following command:
Begin using MongoDB.¶
To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. See Getting Started for the available editions.
Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider the Production Notes document.
Later, to stop MongoDB, press Control+C
in the terminal where the
mongod
instance is running.
Uninstall MongoDB Community Edition¶
To completely remove MongoDB from a system, you must remove the MongoDB applications themselves, the configuration files, and any directories containing data and logs. The following section guides you through the necessary steps.
Warning
This process will completely remove MongoDB, its configuration, and all databases. This process is not reversible, so ensure that all of your configuration and data is backed up before proceeding.
Remove Packages.¶
Remove any MongoDB packages that you had previously installed.
Remove Data Directories.¶
Remove MongoDB databases and log files.