MongoDB Installation on Debian 12

Photo by Rubaitul Azad on Unsplash

As of today(Aug 29 2023) a binary for Debian 12 is not available yet. Although we can use Ubuntu's repo to install MongoDB on Debian 12.

Prerequisites:

sudo apt-get install gnupg curl

Import the GPG key for the repo:

curl -fsSL https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-7.0.asc |sudo gpg  --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/mongodb-server-7.0.gpg

Adding the repository to the source list:

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/7.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-7.0.list

Reload the local package database:

sudo apt-get update

Install the latest stable version of MongoDB:

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

Start mongod service:

sudo systemctl start mongod

Verify:

sudo systemctl status mongod

Start MongoDB on system startup (optional):

sudo systemctl enable mongod

Run mongo by using the following command:

mongosh