Hi, I have tried to install mongod from the apt-get install on my Kali Linux machine. However, it couldn’t find a package with that name. Hence, I decided to install mongod binaries specified at in their documentation as follows.

• Donwload mongod package and extract the content

wget https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-3.6.17.tgz

• Add the location of mongod in the PATH variable

Goto home directory -> Ctrl+H -> Find the .bashrc file -> open and paste following-> Save

export PATH=<path-to-mongodb-directory>/bin:$PATH

• Create data/db directory. (Since I use the root user not needed to set permissions)

mkdir -p /data/db

• Now open terminal and use mongod  to start the server

mongod

• Use mongo command to use the database

mongo

Cheers ! 🙂