INSTALL MONGODB FOR MAC HOW TO

When you open up the new Rosetta Terminal, you will be asked to download Rosetta, select yes and don’t ignore it like I did initially 😅 Now, right click on the newly renamed rosetta terminal, and click get info and select open using Rosetta this will enable the Rosetta Translation Environment we need to run intel binaries. Rename the new terminal to Rosetta Terminal so you don’t get confused which is which. Go to finder > applications > terminal, right click on the terminal and select duplicate this will create a new terminal for you to work with. Now, let’s get to the installations! Step 1: Create a copy of your terminal Personally, I prefer using iTerm with zsh, but if I need to use a separate terminal to run the DB, so shall I do. We need to run mongo using the Rosetta2 Terminal.We need to use Homebrew to install mongoDB on our machines.Īs of Feb 2021, Homebrew fully supports Apple Silicon (M1 Processor) with v3.0.0.

This explains why when I was trying to use Insomnia, I got a message telling me to install Rosetta2 - I ignored the message and didn’t use Insomnia because I had no idea who Rosetta was and why I needed her on my machine 😅 Since many of the applications and software that we use are still running on intel, we need to use the Rosetta2 terminal to get these binaries to process. Previous to Apple’s M1 Processors, Macs ran on the intel processor.

To get mongoDB running on M1 macs, we need to use macOS’ Rosetta Translation Environment to run intel binaries.

INSTALL MONGODB FOR MAC HOW TO

Gaah, that error freaked me out a little and I had to do a Google deep dive to figure out how to get mongo running on my machine. If you use zsh like I do, you may come across an error like this when trying to run mongo on your machine: zsh: bad CPU type in executable: mongo. MongoDB (mongo) isn’t natively supported on the M1 processors as of this writing.

Install mongodb for mac