Upgrading mongodb has no effect and still shows the old version

Question

Following are the commands which I used to upgrade my mongodb version from 2.6.9 to latest, but its still showing me the previous version. Let me know what I am doing wrong

Answer 1

Thank. I action step by step this is done on ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Download tar from mongodb website as per your destribution from : https://www.mongodb.org/downloads Untar downloaded file.

tar -zxvf {mongo-tar-file}.tgz

Stop mongod service.

sudo service mongod stop

Replace binaries from your tar/bin to /usr/bin.

cd {your-extracted-folder}/bin

sudo mv -f * /usr/bin/

Start mongod service.

sudo service mongod start