MongoDB Install Error - mongodb

Question

Just setup a fresh server at MediaTemple (dedicated virtual / CentOS Linux) and installed the developer tools, but Mongo won't install, any ideas?
Also, it's trying to DL version 1.2.10 I assume I can run pecl upgrade mongo once it is installed to go to 2.0.6 right?
Here's my output:
[root ~]# pecl install mongo
downloading mongo-1.2.10.tgz ...
Starting to download mongo-1.2.10.tgz (86,463 bytes)
.....................done: 86,463 bytes
36 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20041225
Zend Module Api No: 20060613
Zend Extension Api No: 220060519
building in /var/tmp/pear-build-root/mongo-1.2.10
running: /root/tmp/pear/cache/mongo-1.2.10/configure
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... //bin/sed
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.
If you meant to cross compile, use `--host'.
See `config.log' for more details.
ERROR: `/root/tmp/pear/cache/mongo-1.2.10/configure' failed

Answer 1

You're not installing mongodb with pecl, here you're installing the PHP driver for mongodb.
To install mongodb on CentOS, please follow these instructions here. These instructions show you how to add the 10gen repo, which will then enable you (using yum) to install the latest production-ready mongodb release (2.0.6).
I realise that it's not Ubuntu but egarding your issue with installing the PHP driver, does it make any difference if you run
sudo pecl install mongo
There's some information here on installing the mongo php driver, just replace the 'apt-get' elements with 'yum' as the same libraries, dependencies apply afaik.
Here's a tutorial on using the mongo php driver.