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jasenlew
jasenlew

Reputation: 453

Uninstall MongoDB on Mac OS X

When I try to run mongod from the terminal, I get the following error:

2014-07-02T23:56:24.797-0700 [initandlisten] ERROR: listen(): bind() failed errno:48 Address already in use for socket: 0.0.0.0:27017 2014-07-02T23:56:24.797-0700 [initandlisten] ERROR: addr already in use

I recently realize that I have two versions of MongoDB on my Mac, and think this may be the source for the above error. (Plus, I do not need two version.) I tried Googling, but was not able to find clear directions on how I can uninstall. I have development version 2.7.0 AND 2.6.3.

Thanks so much in advance for the help!

Upvotes: 41

Views: 89256

Answers (5)

LightMan
LightMan

Reputation: 3575

For those having this error in osx:

brew uninstall mongodb Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb

execute brew list | grep mongo

for example, it could show something like:

[email protected]
mongodb-database-tools
mongosh

remove them with brew uninstall [email protected] mongodb-database-tools mongosh

Also execute launchctl remove homebrew.mxcl.mongodb as @anuvrat-tiku says in his answer.

Upvotes: 2

Shawn Lim
Shawn Lim

Reputation: 281

For uninstalling the community version, i found that the command brew uninstall mongodb-community worked for me

Upvotes: 24

marybngozi
marybngozi

Reputation: 131

Nitin Jadhav version worked for me, brew uninstall mongodb kept given me Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/mongodb. I was removing a mongodb-community. use cd /usr/local/Cellar then run ls -a and then run rm -rf mongodb-community to remove it

Upvotes: 11

BritBarrick
BritBarrick

Reputation: 51

I would suggest navigating into your /usr/local/Cellar and run an ls -a, I had a community version of mongo installed that wasn't being picked up by the command given above. If you find any mongo versions there just rm -rf each instance

Upvotes: 4

Anuvrat Tiku
Anuvrat Tiku

Reputation: 1646

Run the following commands to remove mongodb from the launch/startup and to uninstall it using Homebrew:

# See if mongo is in the launch/startup list
launchctl list | grep mongo

# Remove mongodb from the launch/startup
launchctl remove homebrew.mxcl.mongodb

# Kill the mongod process just in case it's running
pkill -f mongod

# Now you can safely remove mongodb using Homebrew
brew uninstall mongodb

Just double-check in /usr/local/bin/ to make sure that the mongodb commands are removed.

Upvotes: 98

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