Ubuntu – Starting mongoDB server fails

mongodbUbuntuubuntu-14.04

I just installed mongodb server on my ubuntu using this command:

sudo apt-get install mongodb-server

But I can't start it.
When I try to run the server, it says:

masious@ubuntu:/var/log/mongodb$ mongod
mongod --help for help and startup options
mongod: symbol lookup error: mongod: undefined symbol:
_ZN7pcrecpp2RE4InitEPKcPKNS_10RE_OptionsE

Best Answer

While this is a simple matter of reading the manual, I'm going to post an answer as it may come back again and again as "sys admins" start managing MongoDB without reading the manual:

The mongodb-org package includes various control scripts, including the init script /etc/init.d/mongod. These scripts are used to stop, start, and restart daemon processes.

...

Start MongoDB.

Issue the following command to start mongod:

sudo service mongod start

Ref: Install MongoDB on Ubuntu

Now obviously you did not install the mongodb-org package. So perhaps the one distributed on Ubuntu repo is different... but again, that goes back to not reading the manual. I won't quote how to install MongoDB as per the manual as I already put the link above anyway.

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