Global install fails on Amazon Linux 2

Versions

• NodeJS: 14.17.4
• mongodb-memory-server-*: 7.3.4
• system: Amazon Linux 2
• package: mongo-memory-server-global

What is the Problem?

Installation of the mongodb dist fails with

Mongodb-Memory-Server* checking MongoDB binaries
Mongodb-Memory-Server* failed to find an binary:
 Status Code is 403 (MongoDB's 404)
This means that the requested version-platform combination doesn't exist
  Used Url: "https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-rhel-4.0.25.tgz"

When looking up the URL on https://www.mongodb.org/dl/linux I think it should be linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-amazon2-4.0.25.tgz. Maybe linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-rhel70-4.0.25.tgz would also work. Note that rhel seems to no longer exist, but rhel70 does. I guess we could open another issue for that.

I’ve tried setting the download URL via export MONGOMS_DOWNLOAD_URL=https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-amazon2-v3.6-latest.tgz. This makes the download succeed, but the package is placed with a weird name and subsequent commands fail:

Mongodb-Memory-Server* checking MongoDB binaries
Mongodb-Memory-Server* found binary: "/root/.cache/mongodb-binaries/mongod-x64-amzn"-4.0.25"
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/package.json'

Specifying the download url and version leads to a similar result:

export MONGOMS_DOWNLOAD_URL=https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-amazon2-v3.6-latest.tgz
export MONGOMS_VERSION=v3.6-latest

Mongodb-Memory-Server* checking MongoDB binaries
Mongodb-Memory-Server* found binary: "/root/.cache/mongodb-binaries/mongod-x64-amzn"-v3.6-latest"
npm WARN saveError ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/package.json'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/package.json'

This is how the ~/.cache/mongodb-binaries/ looks after running the above:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60297256 Aug  5 20:34 mongod-x64-amzn"-4.0.25
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 60297256 Aug  5 20:36 mongod-x64-amzn"-v3.6-latest

I’ve also tried setting MONGOMS_ARCH=linux-x86_64-amazon2. This does not seem to change anything.

Code Example

Start a container with Amazon Linux 2, for example:

docker run -it amazoncorretto:8 /bin/bash

Then from inside the container

yum install -y gcc-c++ make 
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | bash - 
yum install -y nodejs
npm install mongodb-memory-server-global@7.3.4

Do you know why it happenes?

no

[hasezoey]

Download now works, but the extraction somehow fails. Any ideas?

what exactly do you mean? guessing from the log and your ls output, i see nothing wrong (the only problems / error i see in the log is from npm, not related to MMS)

PS: if you mean the size of the binary, no this is not wrong, i downloaded the archive and looked at the file, it is ~61-~63MB (depending on how its shown / counted)

PPS: i would not recommend to have your project in the root of your container (i would recommend to at least put it in a dedicated directory)

[restfulhead]

You’re right: The binary looks good and is working. Not sure what I had in mind yesterday. So all good then, thanks! 👍

PPS: Right, I’m just using root in my test container. It’s not the setup I have in the real project.