Installation by downloading from


wget http://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.2.tgz
tar xvzf mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.2.tgz
cd mongodb-linux-x86_64-2.0.2/bin
mkdir ../../data
./mongod --dbpath ../../data --logpath /tmp/mongod.log --fork
tail -f /tmp/mongod.log

Installation through apt-get:


$ sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
$ sudo echo "deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/debian-sysvinit dist 10gen" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
# sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install mongodb-10gen

Tweak config in /etc/mongodb.conf if you must. mongo (the shell) is a useful application to try out things with.