Various methods are available online to install and use MongoDB on Ubuntu. However following are the least steps one can use to achieve this purpose. Steps: 1. Open the terminal and type: sudo apt-get install mongodb Enter password. 2. Copy paste: sudo apt-get update 3. Start mongodb service. Type: sudo service mongodb start 4. Open mongodb. mongo 5. Use mongo commands. Let's start with: show dbs 6. Exit mongo. exit 7. After using, it is recommended that we stop the service. For this, type: sudo service mongodb stop
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