Quickstart

# make default directory for data
$ mkdir -p /data/db

# using curl, get the pre-built distro
$ curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-i386-latest.tgz

# unpack
$ tar xzf mongodb-osx-i386-latest.tgz

# make default directory for data
$ mkdir -p /data/db

# using curl, get the pre-built distro
$ curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-latest.tgz

# unpack
$ tar xzf mongodb-osx-x86_64-latest.tgz

# make default directory for data
$ mkdir -p /data/db

# using curl, get the pre-built distro
$ curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-i686-latest.tgz

# unpack
$ tar xzf mongodb-linux-i686-latest.tgz

 # make default directory for data
$ mkdir -p /data/db

# using curl, get the pre-built distro
$ curl -O http://downloads.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-latest.tgz

# unpack
$ tar xzf mongodb-linux-x86_64-latest.tgz

 # run the database in the background - better would be to run in a separate terminal window if testing
./mongodb-xxxxxxx/bin/mongod &
# run the mongo shell.  by default it connects to localhost:
./mongodb-xxxxxxx/bin/mongo
 > db.foo.save( { a : 1 } )
 > db.foo.findOne()