Mongod: Command Not Found (OS X)

Question

I am trying to test MongoDB and I have it all downloaded and moved into the root folder. I can navigate to the folder that holds the mongod, but when I try to run it by typi

Answer 1

You need to add the name of the folder that contains the command mongod into your PATH so your shell knows where to find it.

So, if mongod is in /usr/bin/freddyfrog, you would edit ~/.profile and find the line that says PATH= and edit it to look like this:

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/bin/freddyfrog

Then login again to make it take effect.

Answer 2

run this command, it works:

brew services start mongodb-community@4.0

Answer 3

For example, install 64bit MongoDB 2.6.12 on macOS Catalina. (for newest versions you may go to https://www.mongodb.com/download-center/community for your platform).

1. Download, extract and move:

   wget http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.6.12.tgz

   tar xzf mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.6.12.tgz

   mv mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.6.12/ /usr/local/mongodb/

2. Add to file ~/.zshrc this:

   export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mongodb/bin"

   PS: .bash_profile or .profile not worked in my case

3. Make directory for data and set rights:

   mkdir -p ~/data/db

   chown -R mongodb.mongodb ~/data/db

4. Run MongoDB:

   mongod --dbpath ~/data/db

Answer 4

This worked for me:

1. brew tap mongodb/brew
2. brew install mongodb-community@4.2
3. mongod

https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/

Answer 5

3 steps:

Step 1:

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mongodb/bin"

OR

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/opt/mongodb@3.2/bin"

(replace version number with your local version)

The first step will allow you to run the command, but will get you another error: "/data/db does not exit" so you have to

Step 2 :

sudo mkdir -p /data/db

Now /data/db is read only, but it has to be writable also so

Step 3 :

sudo chown -R USERNAME /data/db 

Answer 6

Both answers above are correct. You can either specify the path in one of the following files: .profile, .bashrc, or .bash_profile

export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/mongodb/bin"

then call the daemon or the shell directly

mongod
mongo

Or for the commands not in the $PATH, use ./mongo or ./mongod from the directory containing these files. This solution can be verbose has you will have to eventually append the whole path when calling these commands from another directory.

/usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod
or
/usr/local/mongodb/bin$ ./mongod