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.
Official documentation says that you should be fine installing mongodb-org-shell
only.
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
- Create a repo file
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
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum install mongodb-org-shell-4.0.2
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/
Please follow below steps.
Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo
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
sudo yum install -y mongodb-org-shell-2.6.9
mongo mongo-db_server_IP:27017/database_name -u username -p password