How to install Robo3T(RobMongo) on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04

In this post, we are going to show that how to Install Robo3T(RoboMongo) on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04. If your are going to Install Robo3T on your Ubuntu system then this post is ideal for you.

Robo 3T(RoboMongo) is a free, cross-platform, lightweight and one of the best GUI management tool that is used to managing and querying MongoDB database.

For more details about Robo3t, visit its official website.

MongoDB is a open source and cross-platform document-oriented database system. It is Classified as a NoSQL database system. It is developed by MongoDB Inc. and licensed under the Server Side Public License.

How to Install Robo3T(RobMongo) on Ubuntu

During writing of this article, we are assuming that you have already installed MongoDB on your Ubuntu system. If not then installed MongoDB using our previous article How to Install MongoDB on Ubuntu 18.04 | 20.04.

Now, simply follow below steps to install Robo3T(RoboMongo) on your Ubuntu system:

There are many ways to Install Robo3T on Ubuntu. But in this article we are using below two most popular methods:

1. Install Robo3T from its Official Packages.
2. Install Robo3T using Snap.

Method 1 : Install Robo3T from its Official Packages

To install Robo3T, first you will need to download the latest packages of Robo 3T form Robo3t or using wget as show below:

wget https://download.studio3t.com/robomongo/linux/robo3t-1.4.3-linux-x86_64-48f7dfd.tar.gz

Next, we need to extract here tar.gz file using command below:

tar -xvzf robo3t-1.4.3-linux-x86_64-48f7dfd.tar.gz

The command above extract the archive file into the folder. Next, we will need to create a new floder in usr/local/bin  for Robo 3T. To do that, Run the command below:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/robo3t

Now, move the extracted package to newly created robo3t folder located at usr/local/bin directory by running command below:

sudo mv  robo3t-1.4.3-linux-x86_64-48f7dfd/* /usr/local/bin/robo3t

Next, you will need to change the directory to cd /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin, run the command below:

cd /usr/local/bin/robo3t/bin

Next, you will need to give permission to newly created directory using chmod command:

sudo chmod +x robo3t ./robo3t

Once you are complete all the steps above, you are ready to use robo3t on your Ubuntu system. You can run Robo3t from command line using command below:

./robo3t

Method 2 : Install Robo3T via Snap

If Snap is not installed on your system then you will need to install it before you install Robo3T. Installing via snap is the best and easiest way to install packages on Linux machine, including Ubuntu.

To Install snap package manager , run the commands below :

sudo apt update
sudo apt install snapd

Now, run the command below to install Robo3T :

sudo snap install robo3t-snap

That’s all.

You can run Robo3t from command line using command below:

sudo robo3t

That’s all.

If you face any error and issue in above steps , please use comment box below to report.