MongoDB Documentation, Release 3.0.4 Pin a specific version of MongoDB Enterprise. Although you can specify any available version of MongoDB, apt-get will upgrade the packages when a newer version becomes available. To prevent unintended upgrades, pin the package. To pin the version of MongoDB at the currently installed version, issue the following command sequence: Versions of the MongoDB packages before 2.6 use a different repository location. Refer to the version of the docu- mentation appropriate for your MongoDB version. The MongoDB instance stores its data files in /var/lib/mongodb and its log files in /var/log/mongodb by default, and runs using the mongodb user account. You can specify alternate log and data file directories in /etc/mongod.conf . See systemLog.path and storage.dbPath for additional information. If you change the user that runs the MongoDB process, you must modify the access control rights to the /var/lib/mongodb and /var/log/mongodb directories to give this user access to these directories. sudo service mongod start Step 1: Start MongoDB. Issue the following command to start mongod : Step 2: Verify that MongoDB has started successfully Verify that the mongod process has started successfully by checking the contents of the log file at /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log for a line reading [initandlisten] waiting for connections on port <port> where <port> is the port configured in /etc/mongod.conf , 27017 by default. Step 3: Stop MongoDB. As needed, you can stop the mongod process by issuing the following command: sudo service mongod stop Step 4: Restart MongoDB. Issue the following command to restart mongod : sudo service mongod restart Step 5: Begin using MongoDB. To help you start using MongoDB, MongoDB provides Getting Started Guides in various driver editions. See getting-started for the available editions. Before deploying MongoDB in a production environment, consider the Production Notes (page 197) document. Later, to stop MongoDB, press Control+C in the terminal where the mongod instance is running. 43 2.3. Installation Guides Run MongoDB Enterprise echo "mongodb-enterprise hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections echo "mongodb-enterprise-server hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections echo "mongodb-enterprise-shell hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections echo "mongodb-enterprise-mongos hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections echo "mongodb-enterprise-tools hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections