Install ONLY mongo shell, not mongodb

54
votes

As mentioned above, I need to install only the mongo shell on a RHEL instance (machine A). I have a mongodb server on a separate instance (machine B) and need to connect to that from A to run mongodump and mongorestore commands.

I tried looking it up on the web but all I got was instructions to install the complete mongodb package.

Any help appreciated.

4
mongodbshellrhel

4 Answers

60
votes

Official documentation says that you should be fine installing mongodb-org-shell only.

4
votes
  1. Create a repository file at sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo
[mongodb-org-4.0]
name=MongoDB Repository 
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.0.asc
gpgcheck=1 
enabled=1

  1. sudo yum clean all

  2. sudo yum install mongodb-org-shell-4.0.2

  3. mongo <mongo-server-ip> Note: Step 4 will not work in all cases. You need to check proper command to connect to remote mongo server.

Source: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-red-hat/

3
votes

You can follow the official tutorial on installing mongodb, and instead of installing the main package that will install all the packages, just install the package containing mongoshell

1
votes

Please follow below steps.

  1. Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo

  2. Update the above file to contain: 

    [mongodb]
name=MongoDB Repository  
baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64/  
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1

  3. sudo yum install -y mongodb-org-shell-2.6.9

  4. mongo mongo-db_server_IP:27017/database_name -u username -p password