Is it possible to install mongodb without root privilages?

Question

How can I install mongodb on a Linux server without root privileges? is this possible? What would the steps be? Is there a way to configure mongo to not use /data/db?

Answer 1

You may download the binaries from MongoDB website.

There are a lot of options for the command mongod to change the default behavior, one of these is:

--dbpath arg directory for datafiles

Based on comments:

But it is preferable to specify all configurations in a configuration file and just invoke mongod with:

--config filename