Can't setup mongoDB locally

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Hey guys and gals,

I have spent the past 5 hours, installing, uninstalling, and reinstalling mongo onto my Linux machine.

I have followed these steps without errors until it comes time to run “mongod” and I get the following:

mongod: /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.10: version libcrypto.so.10 not found (required by mongod) mongod: /usr/lib/libssl.so.10: version libssl.so.10 not found (required by mongod)
Contrary to that output, both of those files are in the folder…

I don’t know why I’m getting that error and, again, it has persisted through multiple installations.

My only guess is I’ve done something funky with $PATH, because I don’t really know what they want me to do with it. Following the manual linked above, I added export PATH=</home/spazcool/11-CODE-11/npmPlayground/mongodb>/bin:$PATH
to the last line of /home/spazcool/.bashrc . Perhaps, I fudged this somehow, by writing the wrong path.

I’m just really tired of beating my head against this, any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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Did you install it globally?
You did not mention your Linux distro.

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I don’t know if it helps you, but what I like to do is in the directory where my project is I will create a directory that I call database…and I will specify mongod --dbpath=database from the command in that dir…and don’t even bother doing a global

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It is global and I’m using ubuntu 16.04

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Have you tried installing the libraries it is complaining about?

This might help:

‘’‘
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
’’’