How to uninstall MongoDB that was manually installed

Question

I installed MongoDB manually on the MongoDB website. https://docs.mongodb.com/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/

I followed the instructions under "Install MongoDB Community Edition Manually".

How do I uninstall MongoDB completely? I have searched around and only found how to uninstall using Homebrew. I did not install MongoDB using Homebrew.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Just follow the manual install steps in reverse order:

• shutdown mongod
• remove your data directory (if you no longer want this)
• remove the directory with the MongoDB binaries
• remove the directory with the MongoDB binaries from your shell PATH

Other files that might have been created depending on how you ran MongoDB:

• there may be old log files to remove if you specified a --logpath outside your data directory

• there may be a launchctl script and configuration file to remove if you configured mongod to run as a service