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Installing from source

The beauty of installing MongoDB directly from its source code is that it ensures that you can run MongoDB on any server, and that you have the absolute latest version. Minimum requirements for source installation include:

A modern C++ 11 compiler
Python (https://www.python.org/) 2.7 or above
pip (https://pypi.org/project/pip/, tool for installing python packages)
git (https://git-scm.com/, recommended)

In addition, there are OS-specific requirements, which are detailed in this table:

Linux	Compiler: GCC 4.8.2 or later
Red Hat, and suchlike.	Libraries needed: `glibc-devel` `libcurl-devel` `openssl-devel` `epel-release` `python-devel`
Ubuntu, and suchlike.	Libraries needed: `build-essential` `libffi-dev` `libssl-dev ...`

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