How to install earlier version of mongodb with homebrew?

Question

I\'m on osx6.8 and need to install an earlier version of Mongodb, how do I install an earlier version with HomeBrew? The below didn\'t work :(

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Answer 1

I was able to install it using these instructions:

Installing MongoDB on OSX for local development

Over the last week, I’ve been building our MongoDB cluster on EC2 for production. For development, however, we’ll still need to install MongoDB locally. I’m running OSX 10.6.8, but these install instructions should be the same on all modern OSX versions.

Installing on OSX is much more pleasant than on EC2 (actually it’s just as easy on EC2, but since it’s a simpler setup there’s n real configuration or head scratching).

Download the latest binary:

curl -O http://fastdl.mongodb.org/osx/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2.tgz

Note!: If you don’t have wget installed, simply download the file above by visiting the link in your web browser and move it into your home directory.

We’re going to install everything under /usr/local/mongodb to keep things organized.

Create the directories (switch 'youruser' with your home user name):

sudo mkdir /usr/local/mongodb

sudo mkdir /usr/local/mongodb/log

sudo mkdir/usr/local/mongodb/data

sudo chown youruser /usr/local/mongodb/log

sudo chown youruser /usr/local/mongodb/data

sudo chgrp staff /usr/local/mongodb/log

sudo chgrp staff /usr/local/mongodb/data

Un-tar the binaries and move them into the correct folder:

tar -xvzf ~/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2.tgz

sudo mv ~/mongodb-osx-x86_64-2.0.2/* /usr/local/mongodb/

Create a config file for mongod:

sudo vi /usr/local/mongodb/mongod.conf

Paste:

dbpath=/usr/local/mongodb/data

logpath=/usr/local/mongodb/log/mongod.log

logappend=false

bind_ip=127.0.0.1

Note: dbpath and logpath specify the path to their respective files, logappend is set to overwrite the log file on each start of the database server, bind_ip only allows local connections.

Create an alias so that issuing mongod always read the config file:

vi ~/.profile

Paste:

# MongoDB Alias'

alias mongod="/usr/local/mongodb/bin/mongod --config=/usr/local/mongodb/mongod.conf"

All done, you should be able to simply type mongod after you reload the shell to start MongoDB. I preferred not to start mongod on boot, but there are other who prefer to and there’s plenty of documentation online to show you how to set that up with launchd and creating a .plist.

http://alexanderwong.me/post/15259867190/installing-mongodb-on-osx-for-local-development