MongoDB Installion on Ubuntu 12.04

How to Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 12.04

Go to the terminal in Ubuntu and type

      sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10

      sudo echo "deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10gen.list

      sudo apt-get -y update

      sudo apt-get -y install mongodb-10gen

Here's an explanation of each :

• The `apt-key` call registers the public key of the custom 10gen MongoDB repository.
• A custom 10gen repository list file is created in /etc/source.list.d/ folder which contains the location of the MongoDB binaries.
• Repository is updated so that new packages can be registered locally.
• Aptitude is told to install MongoDB.

After all these command your MongoDB starting running. You can type

mongo

on the terminal to start mongo shell for executing your mongodb commands.