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MongoDB Community Edition Packages

MongoDB provides repositories to install MongoDB Community on Linux-based operating systems through the native package manager.

To install MongoDB Community, see Install.

The mongodb package provided by most Linux distributions is not maintained by MongoDB, Inc., and conflicts with the official MongoDB Community packages.

If you installed MongoDB through your distribution repositories, uninstall this package before installing from the official MongoDB repositories.

This package contains the following MongoDB database tools:

This package contains the install_compass script.

This package contains the MongoDB Shell (mongosh).

This metapackage installs the following metapackages:

This metapackage installs the following packages:

This package contains the mongos daemon.

This package contains the mongod daemon, the associated systemd service file, and a configuration file (/etc/mongod.conf).

This metapackage installs the following packages: