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MONGODB / MongoDB-v1.4.4 / INSTALL.md

Installation Instructions for the MongoDB Perl Driver

This file describes requirements and procedures for installing the MongoDB Perl driver, typically from CPAN or a tarball. To work on the code in the repository, see the CONTRIBUTING.md file instead.

Supported platforms

The driver requires Perl v5.8.4 or later for most Unix-like platforms.

It is known to build successfully on the following operating systems:

Please see the CPAN Testers Matrix for more details on platform/perl compatibility.

The driver has not been tested on big-endian platforms. Big-endian platforms will require Perl 5.10 or later.

Compiler tool requirements

This module requires make and a compiler.

For example, Debian and Ubuntu users should issue the following command:

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

Users of Red Hat based distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux, Oracle Linux, Fedora, etc.) should issue the following command:

$ sudo yum install make gcc

On Windows, StrawberryPerl ships with a GCC compiler.

Configuration requirements

Configuration requires the following Perl modules:

If you are using a modern CPAN client (anything since Perl v5.12), these will be installed automatically as needed. If you have an older CPAN client or are doing manual installation, install these before running Makefile.PL.

$ cpan Config::AutoConf Path::Tiny

Testing with a database

Most tests will skip unless a MongoDB database is available either on the default localhost and port or on an alternate host:port specified by the MONGOD environment variable:

$ export MONGOD=localhosts:31017

Installing as a non-privileged user

If you do not have write permissions to your Perl's site library directory (perl -V:sitelib), then you will need to use your CPAN client or run make install as root or with sudo.

Alternatively, you configure a local library. See local::lib on CPAN for more details.

Installing from CPAN

You can install the latest stable release by installing the MongoDB package:

$ cpan MongoDB

To install a development release, specify it by author and tarball path. For example:

$ cpan MONGODB/MongoDB-v0.999.999.4-TRIAL.tar.gz

Installing from a tarball downloaded from CPAN

You can install using a CPAN client. Unpack the tarball and from inside the unpacked directly, run your CPAN client with . as the target:

$ cpan .

To install manually, first install the configuration requirements listed above. Then run the Makefile.PL manually:

$ perl Makefile.PL

This will report any missing prerequisites and you will need to install them all. You can then run make, etc. as usual:

$ make
$ make test
$ make install

Installing from the git repository

If you have checked out the git repository (or downloaded a tarball from Github), you will need to install configuration requirements and follow the manual procedure described above.

SSL and/or SASL support

SSL support requires installing the IO::Socket::SSL module. You will need to have the libssl-dev package or equivalent installed for that to build successfully.

SASL support requires Authen::SASL and possibly a Kerberos-capable backend.

The Authen::SASL::Perl backend comes with Authen::SASL and requires the GSSAPI CPAN module for GSSAPI support.

Installing the GSSAPI module from CPAN rather than an OS package requires libkrb5 and the krb5-config utility (available for Debian/RHEL systems in the C or equivalent package).

Alternatively, the Authen::SASL::XS or Authen::SASL::Cyrus modules may be used. Both rely on Cyrus libsasl. Authen::SASL::XS is preferred. Installing Authen::SASL::XS or Authen::SASL::Cyrus from CPAN requires libsasl. On Debian systems, it is available from libsasl2-dev; on RHEL, it is available in cyrus-sasl-devel.