How to install Robomongo from tar.gz file as a program in Ubuntu 15.10

Question

Nowadays robomongo developers releasing the new versions of robomongo as tar.gz not in .deb packages that was easy for double click installations. But

Answer 1

Pulled this from my dotfiles. It's ugly but it works... and it's a bit more verbose so it should be understandable to most:

# Pull down and install Robomongo by copying files
cd /tmp
wget https://download.robomongo.org/0.9.0/linux/robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489.tar.gz
tar xf robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489.tar.gz
sudo mv ./robomongo-0.9.0-linux-x86_64-0786489 /opt/robomongo
cd /usr/sbin
sudo ln -s /opt/robomongo/bin/robomongo

# Grab image to use for icon
cd /opt/robomongo
wget http://mongodb-tools.com/img/robomongo.png

# Create desktop entry
touch /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "[Desktop Entry]" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Encoding=UTF-8" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Name=Robomongo" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Comment=Launch Robomongo" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Icon=/opt/robomongo/robomongo.png" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Exec=/usr/sbin/robomono" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Terminal=false" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Type=Application" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "Categories=Developer;" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
echo "StartupNotify=true" >> /tmp/robomongo.txt
mv /tmp/robomongo.txt ~/.local/share/applications/robomongo.desktop

Answer 2

You can also put the robomongo into /usr/bin like I do:

tar xf robomongo-0.9.0-rc8-linux-x86_64-c113244.tar.gz

sudo mv robomongo-0.9.0-rc8-linux-x86_64-c113244/ /usr/bin/robomongo

export PATH=/usr/bin/robomongo/bin:$PATH

If you are using fish shell, you need to change the last line to:

set PATH $PATH /usr/bin/robomongo/bin

Now you can start it with command:

robomongo

Answer 3

Well, I do not know if it might still help, but one efficient way to install Robomongo from tar.gz file is the following:

1. Go to https://robomongo.org/download to grab the tar.gz file,

2. After download,

   cd Downloads/*
   

   and then type in the terminal:

   $ sudo tar xzf robo3t-1.3.1-linux-x86_64-7419c406.tar.gz -C /opt/
   

3. Make sure your file has been unzipped in the /opt directory by checking:

   $ ls -lh /opt/
   

4. Next, install it by doing:

   $ sudo /opt/robo3t-1.3.1-linux-x86_64-7419c406/bin/robo3t
   

5. The installation wizard pops up and accept the terms and continue installation. Then Enjoy

NB: You will not see the robot3t icon in the start menu. So to start robot3t, always /opt/robo3t-1.3.1-linux-x86_64-7419c406/bin/robo3t to launch robo3T.

Hope it helps ;)