MongoDB installed via Homebrew not working

Question

I installed MongoDB via Homebrew (following http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/install-mongodb-on-os-x/) but it\'s not working.

Typing mongod at shell

Answer 1

You're getting this error because your 'brew' install failed to create the correct symlinks in /usr/local/bin. As a result, the shell can't find the mongo executables in your $PATH. You can fix this using the following steps:

• Check the permissions on /usr/local/bin and make sure that you own that directory and have write permissions on it

  $ ls -ld /usr/local/bin

• Once you've fixed that, run 'brew link' to fix the symlinks

  $ brew link mongodb