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Install Percona Server for MongoDB from binary tarball

You can find links to the binary tarballs under the Generic Linux menu item on the Percona website

There are the following tarballs available:

percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1-x86_64.<operating-system>.tar.gz is the tarball for a supported operating system.

  • percona-mongodb-mongosh-2.3.2-x86_64.tar.gz is the tarball for mongosh shell.

Tarball types

Type Name Description
Full percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1-x86_64..tar.gz Contains binaries and libraries
Minimal percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1-x86_64.-minimal.tar.gz Contains binaries and libraries without debug symbols
Checksum percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1-x86_64.-minimal.tar.gz.sha256sum Contains the MD5 checksum to verify the integrity of the files after the extraction

Preconditions

Install the following dependencies required to install Percona Server for MongoDB from tarballs.

$ sudo yum install openldap cyrus-sasl-gssapi curl

$ sudo apt install curl libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit

$ sudo apt curl libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit

Procedure

Follow these steps to install Percona Server for MongoDB from a tarball:

  1. Fetch the binary tarballs:

    wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-6.0/percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1/binary/tarball/percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1-x86_64.jammy.tar.gz\
$ wget https://www.percona.com/downloads/percona-server-mongodb-7.0/percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1/binary/tarball/percona-mongodb-mongosh-2.3.2-x86_64.tar.gz
    2. Extract the tarballs

    $ tar -xf percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1-x86_64.jammy.tar.gz
$ tar -xf percona-mongodb-mongosh-8.0.1-1-x86_64.tar.gz

  2. Add the location of the binaries to the PATH variable:

    $ export PATH=~/percona-server-mongodb-8.0.1-1/bin/:~/percona-mongodb-mongosh-2.3.2/bin/:$PATH

  3. Create the default data directory:

    $ mkdir -p /data/db

  4. Make sure that you have read and write permissions for the data directory and run mongod.

Next steps

Connect to MongoDB

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