James Brink

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Installing MongoDB on OpenIndiana/OpenSolaris

Okay, so installing MongoDB on OpenIndiana was a few more steps than I would have expected. I figured I should share my process of installing MongoDB in hopes it will help others who have issues with the install. When I initially downloaded MongoDB, I realized right away that it would not run on my system (OpenIndiana build 151). When I attempted to run any of the MongoDB binaries, I got the following result: “ld.so.1: mongod: fatal: libstdc++.so.6: open failed: No such file or directory”

The following instructions assume installation to /opt/mongodb, but obviously you can use any path you like.

Download MongoDB: http://www.mongodb.org/downloads

Download mongo-extra package: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Joyent

At the time of this writing version 2.0.0-rc2 was available so I used this.

Here is my complete list of commands, explained below.

pkg install wget pkg:/developer/object-file
wget http://fastdl.mongodb.org/sunos5/mongodb-sunos5-x86_64-2.0.0-rc2.tgz
mkdir /opt/mongodb
tar xfv mongodb-sunos5-x86_64-2.0.0-rc2.tgz
mv mongodb-sunos5-x86_64-2.0.0-rc2/bin /opt/mongodb/
curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org.s3.amazonaws.com/sunos5/mongo-extra-64.tgz
mkdir /opt/mongodb/lib
tar xfv mongo-extra-64.tgz
mv mongo-extra-64/* /opt/mongodb/lib/
cd /opt/mongodb/bin/
for x in ./*; do elfedit -e 'dyn:runpath $ORIGIN/../lib' $x;done

So first I downloaded and installed wget and pkg:/developer/object-file. The object-file package has a utility called elfedit which we will need to properly link the MongoDB binaries to libraries found here: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Joyent

Once we have placed the files in /opt/mongodb/bin & /opt/mongodb/lib we run a for loop on all of the binaries in /opt/mongodb/bin and adjust the runpath to point to /opt/mongodb/lib. I found information on this little utility from a great blog here: http://blogs.oracle.com/ali/entry/avoiding_ld_library_path_the.

Good luck.

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