Install ONLY mongo shell, not mongodb

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Official documentation says that you should be fine installing mongodb-org-shell only.

1. Create a repository file at sudo vim /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo

[mongodb-org-4.0]
name=MongoDB Repository 
baseurl=https://repo.mongodb.org/yum/redhat/$releasever/mongodb-org/4.0/x86_64/
gpgkey=https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-4.0.asc
gpgcheck=1 
enabled=1 

2. sudo yum clean all

3. sudo yum install mongodb-org-shell-4.0.2

4. mongo <mongo-server-ip> Note: Step 4 will not work in all cases. You need to check proper command to connect to remote mongo server.

Source: https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-red-hat/

You can follow the official tutorial on installing mongodb, and instead of installing the main package that will install all the packages, just install the package containing mongoshell

Please follow below steps.

1. Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo

2. Update the above file to contain:

   [mongodb]
   name=MongoDB Repository  
   baseurl=http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/redhat/os/x86_64/  
   gpgcheck=0
   enabled=1
   

3. sudo yum install -y mongodb-org-shell-2.6.9

4. mongo mongo-db_server_IP:27017/database_name -u username -p password