What version of MongoDB is installed on Ubuntu

Posted on Jan 8, 2022

Question

Hi I'm a bit of a shell n00b.

Can anyone tell me how I would check the version of MongoDB that is installed on my Linux Ubuntu machine?

I see that my MongoDB shell version: 1.2.2 so Im pretty sure that MongoDB itself is out dated too. And does anyone know of any 'How to update MongoDB' docs? I find mongodb.org to be a bit confusing.

Please and thank you.


Ok if I use db.version() inside of mongo shell it says 1.2.2

If I $ mongod --version I get this:

db version v1.2.2, pdfile version 4.5
Wed Oct 16 10:28:22 git version: nogitversion

I ran

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install mongodb

and get

sudo apt-get install mongodb
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
mongodb is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 179 not upgraded.

mongod –version db version v1.2.2, pdfile version 4.5 Wed Oct 16 10:31:07 git version: nogitversion

So why isn't it updating? Is apt-get pointing at the wrong repo / source?

Answer

inside shell:

$ mongod --version