Install ONLY mongo shell, not mongodb

Question

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.

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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

Answer 4

1. 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 

2. sudo yum clean all

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

4. 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/