How to install Robomongo on Ubuntu?

Follow these simple steps.

  • Download the robomongo: https://robomongo.org/download
  • Extract the .tar.gz downloaded from above
  • Change directory to extracted folder.
  • You'll find a bin folder. Go in there, then double click on robomongo.

Anytime you'll wanna run robomongo, you will have to do something like this from terminal:

/path/to/robomongo_dir/bin/robomongo

You might wanna add a link to robomongo from your /usr/bin which will allow you to do something like this anywhere from terminal:

for that

  • navigate to robomongo_dir/bin
  • right click on robomongo executable file and click on Make Link, Link to robomongo executable file will be created there
  • rename Link to robomongo to your wish ( let say robo_)
  • move this link to /usr/bin directory with below command on terminal

    sudo mv /robomongo_dir/bin/robo_ /usr/bin
    

Now you can run robomongo from terminal OR from run command (Alt+ F2) by typing robo_


Robo 3T (formerly Robomongo) is the free lightweight GUI with embedded shell for MongoDB enthusiasts. Use Ubuntu Software to install the robo3t-snap package or install it from the terminal with:

sudo snap install robo3t-snap

answer of @Rexford is nice But I will be more clear

There Two ways to install robomongo program into ubuntu using command line:

First way

1.1 download tar.gz file from Official robomongo website(choose version you need to install and get it's tar.gz download file url)

wget https://download.robomongo.org/0.9.0/linux/robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489.tar.gz

1.2 extract tar.gz file

 tar -xvzf robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489.tar.gz

1.3 mv files and folders into the result folder from extraction operation into folder robomongo under /usr/local/bin

sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/robomongo
sudo mv  robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489/* /usr/local/bin/robomongo

1.4 make sure excute file for robomongo program which exists under /usr/local/bin/robomongo/bin folder is excutable file

cd /usr/local/bin/robomongo/bin
sudo chmod +x robomongo ## run command only if robomongo isn't excutable file
./robomongo

Second way

2.1 download deb file from Official robomongo website(choose version you need to install and get it's deb download file url)

wget https://download.robomongo.org/0.8.5/linux/robomongo-0.8.5-x86_64.deb

2.2 install deb file using dpkg command line

sudo dpkg -i robomongo-0.8.5-x86_64.deb

2.3 open robomongo program using command line by run

robomongo

Very Important Notice:

All available versions 0.8.5 and earlier of robomongo have both deb file and tar.gz file download urls. So If you want a previous version you can use one of two ways But If you need download version 0.9.0 there only one way is the first ones

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