How to install Robomongo from tar.gz file as a program in Ubuntu 15.10

Question

Nowadays robomongo developers releasing the new versions of robomongo as tar.gz not in .deb packages that was easy for double click installations. But that option is no longer available. So how to install it as a program in Ubuntu. I have tried extracting the package and install but failed.

admin@admin-lenovo:~$ cd Downloads/
admin@admin-lenovo:~/Downloads$ tar -xzf robomongo-0.9.0-rc4-linux-x86_64-8c830b6.tar.gz 
admin@admin-lenovo:~/Downloads$ cd robomongo-0.9.0-rc4-linux-x86_64-8c830b6/
admin@admin-lenovo:~/Downloads/robomongo-0.9.0-rc4-linux-x86_64-8c830b6$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

Also .make and ./install failed as no files found. How to install it as a program?

Solution 1

1. First Download the version from the official Robomongo website bellow:

Download Robomongo From Official website using this link

2.Then extract the downloaded tar.gz file in your downloads folder.

3. Copy and paste the extracted folder into your opt folder

/opt

NB: If you don't have permission to paste in this folder use the bellow command in terminal to access the folder.

$ sudo chmod -R 777 /opt

4. Open the opt/robomongo/bin folder and launch Robomongo by clicking the executable icon.

opt/robomongo/bin

5. Simply Create a database and right click on the Robomongo icon and select the lock to launcher option. This will create a shortcut t launch the Robomongo application at any time you need.

Solution 2

Robomongo is now Robo 3T. Following are the updated steps:

1. Download the tar file from robomongo site. The current file is robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0.tar.gz, but yours could be different.

2. Open up the terminal, switch to download directory and run the following commands:

   $ tar -xvzf robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0.tar.gz
   $ sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/robomongo
   $ sudo mv  robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0/* /usr/local/bin/robomongo
   $ cd /usr/local/bin/robomongo/bin
   $ sudo chmod +x robo3t 
   $ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc
   

3. Add the following line to the end of .bashrc file:

   alias robomongo='/usr/local/bin/robomongo/bin/robo3t'

4. Save and close the file. Now reload it using the following command:

   $ source ~/.bashrc
   

5. Then you can run robomongo from your terminal and it will work:

   $ robomongo
   

Solution 3

You can also put the robomongo into /usr/bin like I do:

tar xf robomongo-0.9.0-rc8-linux-x86_64-c113244.tar.gz

sudo mv robomongo-0.9.0-rc8-linux-x86_64-c113244/ /usr/bin/robomongo

export PATH=/usr/bin/robomongo/bin:$PATH

If you are using fish shell, you need to change the last line to:

set PATH $PATH /usr/bin/robomongo/bin

Now you can start it with command:

robomongo

Solution 4

Pulled this from my dotfiles. It's ugly but it works... and it's a bit more verbose so it should be understandable to most:

# Pull down and install Robomongo by copying files
cd /tmp
wget https://download.robomongo.org/0.9.0/linux/robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489.tar.gz
tar xf robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489.tar.gz
sudo mv ./robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489 /opt/robomongo
cd /usr/sbin
sudo ln -s /opt/robomongo/bin/robomongo

# Grab image to use for icon
cd /opt/robomongo
wget http://mongodb-tools.com/img/robomongo.png

# Create desktop entry
touch /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "[Desktop Entry]" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Encoding=UTF-8" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Name=Robomongo" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Comment=Launch Robomongo" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Icon=/opt/robomongo/robomongo.png" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Exec=/usr/sbin/robomono" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Terminal=false" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Type=Application" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Categories=Developer;" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "StartupNotify=true" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
mv /tmp/robomongo.txt ~/.local/share/applications/robomongo.desktop

Solution 5

You can first extract the package:

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xzf robo3t-x.x.x-linux-x86_64-xxxxxxx.tar.gz

You can rename the folder to something simpler

mv robo3t-x.x.x-linux-x86_64-xxxxxxx robo3t

Dowload any images with format .png [click here][1] (For whatever reason, the Robo3T package itself does not contain any png file for the icon)

Save the image like robo3t.png and move this image to folder robo3t and then, instead of dumping the whole thing in /usr you can transfer this directory to /opt directory and symlink the binary file to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin. This makes for a better way of organising your applications, and keeping such add-on packages is what /opt is for.

So first move the directory

sudo mv robo3t /opt

and then symlink it like so

sudo ln -s /opt/robo3t/bin/robo3t /usr/bin/robo3t

then you can create an Unity desktop file for your launcher

nano ~/.local/share/applications/robo3t.desktop

and finally; paste the next code in the file newly created

 [Desktop Entry]
       Encoding=UTF-8
       Name=Robo 3T
       Exec=robo3t
       Icon=/opt/robo3t/robo3t.png
       Terminal=false
       Type=Application
       Categories=Development;

And Happy coding!

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Comments

[mistertandon]

Step wise solution, already answered on stackoverflow To install MongoDB Administration: RoboMongo version 0.9.* on Ubuntu

[m47730]

there is a typo: echo "Exec=/usr/sbin/robomongo" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt

[Nixon Kosgei]

sweet, in addition you can right click it icon on the launcher and choose add to dash

[AturSams]

This is by far the best and simplest answer.

[Maximo Dominguez]

I really don't think you should chmod 777 /opt

[Praveen George]

@MaximoDominguez oh right, is there any other better option?

[CascadiaJS]

This is the correct answer, but there is a bug in the latest version and you will need to rm lib/libstdc++* to make it work

[thinuwan]

thank you so much. this is the one which worked for me. i tried different methods and when i open robomongo collections are not showing and i cannot create any collections. this is the only one which solved my problem. thank you again

[Dhaval Jardosh]

Great answer and pin-point comment. @CascadiaJS, please edit the answer with your valuable input. Answer and comment did solve my problem. Thanks!

[Abdul]

location of libstdc++* is actually /usr/local/bin/robomongo/lib so the delete command should look like: rm /usr/local/bin/robomongo/lib/libstdc++*

[Brad]

This is the only method that worked for me as well. Thanks a bunch.

[João Pedro Schmitz]

If you don't have gedit check out this page! Or change the gedit command for vim.

[Kickaha]

chmod 777 you can do, not something you should do.

[Raphael Onofre]

This script is for postman. I think this is the correct link you meant to post gist.github.com/Chetan07j/ef98f17a699c1ff2ef7c34903c3c0389. And yes, this script works!

[Aniruddha Mishra]

Perfect Solution step by step . Thanks

[Chetan Patil]

@RaphaelOnofre thanks for pointing mistake, link updated now