MongoDB install on Ubuntu 9.10 UNR
tried to install MongoDB from the mongo apt repo but it failed, below are the steps to manually install mongo on ubuntu 9.10
# get the files
# extract
tar xzf mongodb-linux-i686-1.4.0.tgz
# create the required data directory
sudo mkdir -p /data/db
sudo chmod -Rv 777 /data/
# start the mongo server
cd mongodb-linux-i686-1.4.0/
./bin/mongod &
# open the mongo shell
./bin/mongo
next post will detail how to install the php mongo driver manually - without pear/pecl
