Installing MongoDB in WSL2 with Ubuntu-22.04

These last days I've been with no time to practice coding, and one thing stopping me was that I didn't have my dev environment as I would like to.
So this week I decided to write this article on how I did to install MongoDB (latest) on my WSL setup.

Head to root folder

cd /

Install GNUPG

sudo apt-get install gnupg

Issue following command to import GPG keys

curl -fsSL https://pgp.mongodb.com/server-6.0.asc | \
   sudo gpg -o /usr/share/keyrings/mongodb-server-6.0.gpg \
   --dearmor

Create List file

echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/mongodb-server-6.0.gpg ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/6.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-6.0.list

Reload Packages

sudo apt-get update

Install Mongo db Packages

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

Create DB Folder

mkdir -p data/db

Apply permissions

sudo chown -R `id -un` data/db

Run MongoD

mongod

Verify

You should be able to see something like Waiting for connections","attr":{"port":27017,"ssl":"off" on the terminal.

Hope it helps"

Comments

[Thomas Bnt]

Hello great post!

Don't hesitate to put colors on your codeblock like this example for have to have a better understanding of your code 😎

console.log('Hello world!');

[arielro85]

Thanks Thomas! :D

[Sebastián Andrés Kozak]

awesome thank you this is very helpful. I'm so happy that I would kiss you... would you let me? WUW

[Waldemar Wosiński]

On debian based Pengwin distro, made for WSL I got:

Adding user `mongodb' to group `mongodb' ...
Done.
System has not been booted with systemd as init system (PID 1). Can't operate.
Failed to connect to bus: Host is down
Setting up mongodb-org-shell (6.0.12) ...

Any idea how to proceed?

[Waldemar Wosiński]

Solution: via pengwin-setup you may easily install systemd.

[arielro85]

What is your WSL Ubuntu Version?

[Waldemar Wosiński]

It was Pengwin paid distro. I've solved it with built in setup app.
For now I've switched to Ubuntu fresh installation as it has fixed most reasons why the paid distro was made.
I find this now less troublesome to go through the instructions for Ubuntu.

[arielro85]

Glad that it helps. I forgot to mentions that I did this on Ubuntu 22.04