uninstalling mongo

Question

I am having trouble uninstalling mongo from a 64 bit EC2. In /usr/bin I have mongo and mongod amongst others. When I type mongo from anywhere it opens the shell at version 1.8. I now downloaded 2.0.2 and in that folder when I run mongo it opens up version 2.0.2

My question is how do I purge mongo fully so I can install 2.0.2 without coming across the old 1.8 version?

EDIT: I believe I used yum (it was a while ago), and I think the ec2 is fedora.

Answer 1

1.Stop Mongo DB using -

sudo service mongod stop

2.Remove Packages using -

sudo yum erase $(rpm -qa | grep mongodb-org)

3.Remove Data Directories using -

sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb
sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongo

Answer 2

yum erase mongo-10gen mongo-10gen-server

Answer 3

I needed to run a yum list installed | grep mongo then yum remove those packaged

Answer 4

This should work

rpm -qa | less | grep mongo

using that command will give you the mongo packages you have installed, after that you can do

rpm -qa | less | grep mongo | xargs yum remove // <-- this will remove all packages automatically

but can also remove all of them Manually

Answer 5

this gets the job done easily

sudo yum erase mongodb-org*

Answer 6

First stop the mongo service

sudo service mongod stop

Then remove the packages

sudo yum erase $(rpm -qa | grep mongodb-org)

Then remove the log(data) directories

sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb

sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongo

Answer 7

For Ubuntu users:

First, stop the service of MongoDB and then try uninstalling mongod.

Then, type these commands to uninstall mongodb:

sudo apt-get purge mongodb mongodb-clients mongodb-server mongodb-dev

sudo apt-get purge mongodb-10gen

sudo apt-get autoremove

Answer 8

I used dnf command to list and uninstall mongodb from my EC2 servers (RedHat Enterprise Linux 8). Hope this helps for the RHEL8 users.

DNF_ is the next upcoming major version of YUM_, a package manager for RPM-based Linux distributions. It roughly maintains CLI compatibility with YUM and defines a strict API for extensions and plugins.

For further reading about DNF usage...

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

To list down the mongodb installations (Use sudo if required)

sudo dnf list installed|grep mongodb

To uninstall/remove mongodb

sudo dnf remove mongodb-org

Then run the list command again to see if the installation is successful. It shouldn't show any mongodb-org packages if the uninstallation was successful.

sudo dnf list installed|grep mongodb