How To Install MongoDB Compass on Debian 11

In this tutorial, we will show you how to install MongoDB Compass on Debian 11. For those of you who didn’t know, MongoDB Compass is a graphical tool for MongoDB. It visually allows you to explore your data, run the queries, and interact with the database with full CRUD functionality. It also has a query performance monitoring system so that you can check and optimize queries and this GUI is available on Linux, Mac, or Windows.

This article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of Linux, know how to use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo‘ to the commands to get root privileges. I will show you through the step-by-step installation of the MongoDB Compass on a Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Prerequisites

• A server running one of the following operating systems: Debian 11 (Bullseye).
• It’s recommended that you use a fresh OS install to prevent any potential issues.
• A non-root sudo user or access to the root user. We recommend acting as a non-root sudo user, however, as you can harm your system if you’re not careful when acting as the root.

Install MongoDB Compass on Debian 11 Bullseye

Step 1. Before running the tutorial below, it’s important to make sure your system is up to date by running the following apt commands in the terminal:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ca-certificates

Step 2. Installing MongoDB.

MongoDB Compass requires MongoDB to be installed on your server. So first of all, Make sure you have MongoDB installed on your system.

Step 3. Installing MongoDB Compass on Debian 11.

By default, MongoDB Compass is not included in the Debian default repository. Now we get the .deb package file installer from the official page:

wget https://downloads.mongodb.com/compass/mongodb-compass_1.28.1_amd64.deb

Next, install the downloaded file with the following command below:

sudo apt install ./mongodb-compass_1.28.1_amd64.deb

Step 4. Accessing MongoDB Compass on Debian.

Once successfully installed, now search for MongoDB Compass from the application menu.

Congratulations! You have successfully installed MongoDB Compass. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing the latest version of the MongoDB Compass on the Debian system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you check the official MongoDB website.