`mongo` and `mongosh` disappeared?

[scspijker]

Since today our builds fail because they can't find the mongo or mongosh clients. This is for both version 1.7.0 and 1.8.0 of this step.

Did this step install client software before and has something changes / broken, or did we accidentally get mongo client software from Github Actions itself?

[marcuspoehls]

@scspijker Hey Stijn, you should have either the mongodb command when using the MongoDB 4.x release line or mongosh in MongoDB 5.x and 6.x. Can you please check your GitHub Actions logs for this package and have a look which version has been used to start the MongoDB container?

[timmyg]

@scspijker @marcuspoehls seeing similar issue - we relied on this giving us mongo and mongoimport and now getting:

mongo: not found
and
mongoimport: not found

Using mongo:5.0

[marcuspoehls]

@timmyg Hey Tim, thanks for confirming the issue.

@scspijker @timmyg Tim, Stijn, can you please share a link to a failed GitHub Actions job? I need more details on the error and some context in which it fails.

[ringsaturn]

@marcuspoehls Hi, I made an example repo https://github.com/ringsaturn/mongodb-action-debug for this issue and a sample CI:

• https://github.com/ringsaturn/mongodb-action-debug/actions/runs/3552975544/jobs/5968221655#step:5:7

[marcuspoehls]

@ringsaturn Thank you for the repo! That helps.

You're using Ubuntu 22.04 on that runner. The new 22.04 runners don't have MongoDB installed anymore. MongoDB was available on 20.04, but removed on 22.04.

That's the reason you can't use the mongo, mongosh, and mongoimport commands directly. They would be available from within the MongoDB docker container. But not directly on the 22.04 host

[ringsaturn]

@marcuspoehls Thanks, it’s problem of Ubuntu 22.04 runner not this action.

---

For anyone interested in this problem, please track these issues:

• (Public Beta) Ubuntu 22.04 is now available actions/runner-images#5490
• mongosh, installed by default in ubuntu-20.04, is absent in ubuntu-22.04 actions/runner-images#6626
• https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/installing-mongodb-over-ubuntu-22-04/159931

[marcuspoehls]

@ringsaturn Thanks for sharing the links!

[AdamGerthel]

Any ideas on how to work around this? I tried installing mongo:

      - name: Install mongosh
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install gnupg
          wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-6.0.asc | sudo apt-key add -
          echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/6.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-6.0.list
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-mongosh

But that didn't help. Still getting mongo: command not found

This is the whole file

name: Run Tests

on:
  push:
    branches: [master]
  pull_request:
    branches: [master]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    env:
      TEST_MONGODB_URI: mongodb://localhost:27017/test

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Use Node.js 16.x
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: 16
          cache: 'yarn'

      - name: Install mongosh
        run: |
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install gnupg
          wget -qO - https://www.mongodb.org/static/pgp/server-6.0.asc | sudo apt-key add -
          echo "deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu jammy/mongodb-org/6.0 multiverse" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-6.0.list
          sudo apt-get update
          sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-mongosh

      - name: Start MongoDB
        uses: supercharge/mongodb-github-action@1.8.0
        with:
          mongodb-version: 6.0

      - run: yarn install
      - run: yarn build
      - run: mongo --eval "db.getSiblingDB('test')"
      - run: yarn test

[marcuspoehls]

@AdamGerthel Hey Adam, GitHub Action runners using Ubuntu-latest doesn’t have MongoDB installed on the host system. That means you can’t use the mongo command. You’re installing the MongoDB Shell mongosh and not MongoDB directly on the host. If I understand it correctly, you must install MongoDB itself to have the mongo command available.

[AdamGerthel]

@marcuspoehls

Ubuntu-latest doesn’t have MongoDB installed on the host system. That means you can’t use the mongo command.

Yeah I know - that's what I was trying to fix by adding the "Install mongosh" step.

You’re installing the MongoDB Shell mongosh and not MongoDB directly on the host.

Ok, I just followed the official install instructions and thought that would work. What would be the way to install mongodb and not mongosh then?