uninstalling mongo - mongodb

Question

I am having trouble uninstalling mongo from a 64 bit EC2.
In /usr/bin I have mongo and mongod amongst others.
When I type mongo from anywhere it opens the shell at version 1.8.
I now downloaded 2.0.2 and in that folder when I run mongo it opens up version 2.0.2
My question is how do I purge mongo fully so I can install 2.0.2 without coming across the old 1.8 version?
EDIT: I believe I used yum (it was a while ago), and I think the ec2 is fedora.

Answer 1

1.Stop Mongo DB using -
sudo service mongod stop
2.Remove Packages using -
sudo yum erase $(rpm -qa | grep mongodb-org)
3.Remove Data Directories using -
sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb
sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongo

Answer 2

yum erase mongo-10gen mongo-10gen-server

Answer 3

I needed to run a yum list installed | grep mongo then yum remove those packaged

Answer 4

This should work
rpm -qa | less | grep mongo
using that command will give you the mongo packages you have installed, after that you can do
rpm -qa | less | grep mongo | xargs yum remove // <-- this will remove all packages automatically
but can also remove all of them Manually

Answer 5

this gets the job done easily
sudo yum erase mongodb-org*

Answer 6

First stop the mongo service
sudo service mongod stop
Then remove the packages
sudo yum erase $(rpm -qa | grep mongodb-org)
Then remove the log(data) directories
sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb
sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongo

Answer 7

For Ubuntu users:
First, stop the service of MongoDB and then try uninstalling mongod.
Then, type these commands to uninstall mongodb:
sudo apt-get purge mongodb mongodb-clients mongodb-server mongodb-dev
sudo apt-get purge mongodb-10gen
sudo apt-get autoremove

Answer 8

I used dnf command to list and uninstall mongodb from my EC2 servers (RedHat Enterprise Linux 8). Hope this helps for the RHEL8 users.
DNF_ is the next upcoming major version of YUM_, a package manager
for RPM-based Linux distributions. It roughly maintains CLI
compatibility with YUM and defines a strict API for extensions and
plugins.
For further reading about DNF usage...
https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
To list down the mongodb installations (Use sudo if required)
sudo dnf list installed|grep mongodb
To uninstall/remove mongodb
sudo dnf remove mongodb-org
Then run the list command again to see if the installation is successful. It shouldn't show any mongodb-org packages if the uninstallation was successful.
sudo dnf list installed|grep mongodb

Answer 9

I think yum remove mongodb should do the trick.

Answer 10

First Stop the service of MongoDB and then try uninstalling mongod.

Answer 11

you can uninstall mongo db by this code
Uninstalling existing MongoDB packages
Since I'm not 100% what you've got installed, I suggest the following to make sure everything is uninstalled:
sudo apt-get purge mongodb mongodb-clients mongodb-server mongodb-dev
sudo apt-get purge mongodb-10gen
sudo apt-get autoremove

Answer 12

Steps to uninstall MongoDB:
sudo apt-get purge mongodb mongodb-clients mongodb-server mongodb-dev
sudo apt-get purge mongodb-10gen
sudo apt-get autoremove

Answer 13

Type which mongo This will show the executable path. Delete all the mongo related binaries in that path, then install the new version and copy all those binaries to /usr/bin directory. After this you will be able to access it without any issues.