Unable to run meteor mongo in METEOR@2.14

[Shelagh-Lewins]

I have a METEOR@2.14 project running and would like to open the mongodb shell (to check the Mongodb version).

OS: Linux mint cinnamon

According to the docs for Meteor 2.14, I should open a second terminal window, navigate to my project and then run:

meteor mongo

What is

When I run this command, I see the following error:

Some error occured while trying to run mongosh.
Check bellow for some more info:

     Since version v5.0.5 the mongo shell has been superseded by the mongosh
     below there is the url to use with mongosh
     $ mongosh mongodb://127.0.0.1:3001/meteor
     
The 'mongosh' command line tool was not found in your PATH.

According to the Meteor 2.11 migration guide, I should be able to use mongosh instead, but when I run:

mongosh

I see an error:

bash: mongosh: command not found

What should be

The docs should explain how to run the mongo shell.

• the Meteor 2.14 user guide should not say to use meteor mongo
• the migration guide should explain what to do

Update: after some investigation, I found that mongo shell needs to be installed separately, which is unexpected for a long-term Meteor user because I'm so used to everything in Meteor "just working" and the install / upgrade processes being so smooth.

After installing mongo shell, this works:

mongosh mongodb://127.0.0.1:3001/meteor

It would be super helpful if the migration guide pointed out that you need to install mongo shell, because this wasn't obvious to me.

https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/install/

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