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.