从 ubuntu 卸载 mongoDB

Question

I have installed MongoDB 3.0.1 following the commands in Install MongoDB Community Edition on Ubuntu on my ubuntu 14.04 64 bit system and I installed Robomongo interface to use that.

When I try to connect MongoDB using Robomongo I get an error that authorization failed. I found Add support for SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication (MongoDB 3.0+) which explains that Robomongo 0.8.5 doesn't support MongoDB 3.0.X fully.

In response, I want to remove MongoDB 3.0.1 and install MongoDB 2.2.

I tried the following commands:

 apt-get remove --purge mongodb

and also

apt-get autoremove --purge mongodb

In both cases I got the following error:

" Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?"

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

sudo service mongod stop
sudo apt-get purge mongodb-org*
sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb
sudo rm -r /var/lib/mongodb

this worked for me

Answer 2

In my case mongodb packages are named mongodb-org and mongodb-org-*

So when I type sudo apt purge mongo then tab (for auto-completion) I can see all installed packages that start with mongo .

Another option is to run the following command (which will list all packages that contain mongo in their names or their descriptions):

dpkg -l | grep mongo

In summary, I would do (to purge all packages that start with mongo ):

sudo apt purge mongo*

and then (to make sure that no mongo packages are left):

dpkg -l | grep mongo

Of course, as mentioned by @alicanozkara, you will need to manually remove some directories like /var/log/mongodb and /var/lib/mongodb

Running the following find commands:

sudo find /etc/ -name "*mongo*" and sudo find /var/ -name "*mongo*"

may also show some files that you may want to remove, like:

/etc/systemd/system/mongodb.service
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-3.2.list

and:

/var/lib/apt/lists/repo.mongodb.*

You may also want to remove user and group mongodb , to do so you need to run:

sudo userdel -r mongodb
sudo groupdel mongodb

To check whether mongodb user/group exists or not, try:

cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd | grep mongo
cut -d: -f1 /etc/group | grep mongo

Answer 3

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

This should also remove your config from

 /etc/mongodb.conf.

If you want to clean up completely and you might also want to remove the data directory

/var/lib/mongodb

Answer 4

use command with sudo,

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge mongodb

OR

sudo apt-get remove mongodb* --purge

It will remove complete mongodb

Answer 5

Stop MongoDB

Stop the mongod process by issuing the following command:

sudo service mongod stop

Remove Packages

Remove any MongoDB packages that you had previously installed.

sudo apt-get purge mongodb-org*

Remove Data Directories.

Remove MongoDB databases and log files.

 sudo rm -r /var/log/mongodb /var/lib/mongodb

Answer 6

Sometimes this works;

sudo apt-get install mongodb-org --fix-missing --fix-broken
sudo apt-get autoremove mongodb-org --fix-missing --fix-broken

Answer 7

use sudo with the command:

sudo apt-get remove --purge mongodb  
apt-get autoremove --purge mongodb  

Answer 8

sudo apt-get remove mongodb* --purge

Answer 9

To uninstalling existing MongoDB packages. I think this link will helpful.