Install mongoDB on 64bit Debian (Squeeze)

Sometime the most obvious thing turns out to be the most complicated one. Here’s my small journey to get mongoDB running on one 64bit Debian server. Like any other reasonable person I started from the manual. Everything worked as they said it would and for some time I was quite happy with it. But at some point for whatever reason I peaked into /var/log/mongodb/mongodb.log. ***** SERVER RESTARTED ***** Wed Dec 12 17:34:37 warning: 32-bit servers don't have journaling enabled by default. Read more