Issue
I am trying to download mongodb and I am following the steps on this rel="noreferrer">link.
But when I get to the step:
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org
I get the following error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mongodb-org //This is the error
Why is this occurring and is there a work around?
Solution
I have faced the same issue but then fixed it by the changing the package file section command. The steps that I followed were:
First try with this command:
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb
This is the unofficial mongodb package provided by Ubuntu and it is not maintained by MongoDB and conflicts with MongoDB’s officially supported packages.
If the above command doesn't work then you can fix the issue by one of the following procedures:
Step 1: Import the MongoDB public key
In Ubuntu 18.*+, you may get invalid signatures. --recv value may need to be updated to EA312927
.
See here for more details on the invalid signature issue: MongoDB GPG - Invalid Signatures
sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv 7F0CEB10
Step 2: Generate a file with the MongoDB repository url
echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list
Step 3: Refresh the local database with the packages
sudo apt-get update
Step 4: Install the last stable MongoDB version and all the necessary packages on our system
sudo apt-get install mongodb-org
Or if the unofficial mongodb package provided by Ubuntu is not maintained by MongoDB and conflict with MongoDB’s officially supported packages. Use the official MongoDB mongodb-org packages, which are kept up-to-date with the most recent major and minor MongoDB releases.
sudo apt-get install -y mongodb
Hope this will work for you also. You can follow this MongoDB
Update
The above instruction will install mongodb 2.6 version, if you want to install latest version for Ubuntu 12.04
then just omit the above step 2
and follow below instruction instead of that:
Step 2: Generate a file with the MongoDB repository url
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb.list
If you are using Ubuntu 14.04
then use bellow step instead of above step 2
Step 2: Generate a file with the MongoDB repository url
echo "deb http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu trusty/mongodb-org/3.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.0.list
Answered By - Naim Rajiv Answer Checked By - Timothy Miller (WPSolving Admin)