Install MongoDB on Manjaro

Question

I'm facing difficulties installing the MongoDB community server on Manjaro Linux.

There isn't official documentation on how to install it on Arch-based systems and Pacman can't find it in the AUR repos.

Has anyone ever tried to install it?

Pacman doesn't search in AUR, and `pamac` (the other package manager) searches only with `pamac search -a mongodb` - and finds something. — Tomasz Gandor, Jul 28 '20 at 14:12

score 70 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 08 '21 at 10:31

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Here is what I did to install.

As the package is not available in the official Arch repositories and can't be installed using pacman, you need to follow a few steps to install it.

First, you need to get the URL for the repo of prebuilt binaries from AUR. It can be found here and by the time of writing this it was https://aur.archlinux.org/mongodb-bin.git

Simply clone the repo in your home directory or anywhere else. Do git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/mongodb-bin.git, then head to the cloned directory, cd mongodb-bin.

Now, all you need to do is to run makepkg -si command to make the package. the -s flag will handle the dependencies for you and the -i flag will install the package.

After makepkg finishes its execution, don't forget to start mongodb.service. Run systemctl start mongodb and if needed enable it with systemctl enable mongodb.

Type mongo in the terminal and if the Mongo Shell runs you are all set.

Later edit (8.2.2021): This package is now available in AUR.

edited Feb 08 '21 at 10:31

Iulia Mihet

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answered Dec 23 '19 at 15:21

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I've tested the solution on Manjaro Linux. Works fine. Thank you. – Nairum Feb 24 '20 at 11:07
This works well even just now. However, would this be update alongside all other packages during system updates? – Mazimia May 25 '20 at 17:20
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@Touchstone you can update this kind of packages using AUR package tool like yay, yay uses similar syntax to pacman, to update official and non-official packages you can use: yay -Syua – Lyoneel Jul 14 '20 at 14:15
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If it's on AUR, you can search for it `pamac search -a mongodb` and then install it with `pamac build mongodb`. – Tomasz Gandor Jul 28 '20 at 14:11
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@TomaszGandor when I run `pamac build mongodb` it just builds forever. I left it running for an hour and came back and still wasn't done. It looks like it's stuck in a dep check loop. Any idea how to work around that? – Kyler Johnson Aug 24 '20 at 21:45
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@KylerJohnson, yes, try `pamac build mongodb-bin` ;) – Tomasz Gandor Aug 25 '20 at 15:33
And by that manner, you can install also MongoDB Compass, thanks bro! – Raymond Reddington Mar 10 '21 at 04:51
@ZavenZareyan my pleasure :) – Henry Harutyunyan Mar 18 '21 at 14:30

score 12 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 11 '20 at 14:17

It is available in AUR, so you can view it with pamac with -a flag, eg.

  pamac search -a mongodb-bin
  pamac info -a mongodb-bin

And, then build and install with (this can be done after manually cloning too) -

  pamac build mongodb-bin

Note that there's also a package named mongodb, but mongodb-bin is a newer release (you can check the version numbers by search or info arguments)

score 6 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 20 '21 at 19:25

I've been using mongodb via docker for a couple of years.
In my experience, it's easier than installing the regular way. (assuming you already have docker installed)

1. Ensure you have docker installed

If you don't already have it, you can install via pacman/pamac, because it's in the official Arch/Manjaro package repositories. The easiest way is to run the following command:

sudo pacman -S docker

2. Run a single docker command

sudo docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -v ~/mongodb_data:/data/db mongo

This command will run mongodb on a port 27017, and place its data files into a folder ~/mongodb_data. If you're running this command for the first time, it will also download all the required files.

Now you're successfully running a local instance of mongodb, and you can connect it with your favorite db management tool or from your code.

nice i like this. but in this case i'd need to install the mongodbshell separately? — Anton A, Jul 07 '21 at 11:45
you have to provide a name like this `sudo docker run -d -p 27017:27017 -v ~/mongodb_data:/data/db --name MyMongo mongo:latest` then run `docker exec -it MyMongo bash` — aryankarim, Feb 11 '22 at 02:46

Install MongoDB on Manjaro

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1. Ensure you have docker installed

2. Run a single docker command

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