10 mo. ago • 33%

Arch Linux users, help needed!

Im a MEAN Stack developer and require the following:-

MongoDB (with MongoDB Compass)
Express
Angular
NodeJS

I need those for my web development job and projects.

I have experience with Ubuntu and Fedora based distros and wanted to use Arch Linux because i like the way Hyprland looked. Just tell me how to install mongodb, the rest can be done with npm.

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because i like the way Hyprland looked

lol

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- if i don't like it, i can go back to gnome or kde, i got things backed up in a hard drive.
  
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Are you looking for this?

And sorry but... RTFM ;)

And when you're ready, I suggest trizen for AUR management

EDIT: yeah, you can use npm, rpm, deb, snap, etc. But from my experience using the packages and package manager from the distro you're using breaks less often. Only python packages in a venv I'd consider an exception.
And in case of Arch, if you really can't wait a few days for the newest version of a thing, that's what AUR *-git packages are for

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- trizen
  
  Last Updated: 2022-12-02 10:54 (UTC)
  
  might wanna switch over to yay
  
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  That might be a good idea, true. I haven't payed attention to its updates. But then, I also haven't had any issues with trizen last few years
  
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- First time I hear of trizen. How does it compare to yay or paru?
  
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  No idea, sorry. I've switched to trizen when lack of development on pacmatic became an issue, few years ago
  
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- yep, im gonna try using paru or yay when i install arch tomorrow.
  
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Honestly I would say just learn Docker. It only takes a few days, a week tops. You make a container with Mongo and one with Node, network them together, map the Express port and the data volumes for db/code/build to the host machine, and live happily ever after.

Which is super clean, not distro-dependent, reproducible, portable, easy to backup, you can swap Mongo and Node versions or use multiple versions side by side as you please, and you can use whatever features you want from the home distro without impacting anything in your dev stack.

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You could use Hyprland over both Ubuntu & Fedora. Nevertheless, all mentioned programs are supported by pacman. Docker is also available.

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- i know they exist, it's how you install em was the issue. I know I can use yay or paru to get them but don't know unless i try it.
  
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  Then… how did you not know how to get MongoDB?
  
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MongoDB

MongoDB has been removed from the official repositories due to its re-licensing issues [1].

Install one of the following for the latest version available:

mongodb^AUR - builds from source.

mongodb-bin^AUR - prebuilt MongoDB binary extracted from official MongoDB Ubuntu repository packages. Compilation options used are unknown.

Alternatively, there are older versions of MongoDB available:

mongodb50^AUR, mongodb50-bin^AUR

mongodb44^AUR, mongodb44-bin^AUR

mongodb42-bin^AUR

mongodb40-bin^AUR

mongodb36-bin^AUR

mongodb34-bin^AUR

mongodb32-bin^AUR

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_User_Repository
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Docker too obvious?

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- Unrelated but ok.
  
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  How is it unrelated? Running MongoDB in a container so that it just works and you have a portable/reproducible dev environment is a perfectly valid approach.
  
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Install paru and use it to install mongodb from the aur.

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- Or yay. I’ve found yay to have more intuitive defaults
  
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I used Fedora/Hyprland for a while.

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MongoDB

Do you know what the AUR (Arch User Repository) is? You can install MongoDB that way. (This is NOT an official source, all AUR packages are created by users!)

You can install an AUR manager like yay:

git clone https://github.com/Jguer/yay cd yay sudo make install

and install (compile) MongoDB:

yay -S mongodb

(or alternatively mongodb-bin for a pre-compiled version)

I apologize if some of the code doesn't work, i can't test it right now.
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