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jdotdoe
jdotdoe

Reputation: 507

Installing MongoDB compass this may take a few minutes

It has been half an hour and it is still stuck at the same progress. My machine is Windows 7 and I have downloaded the Community Server 2008 R2 64-bit and later. Sreenshot

Does anyone know why? Do I really need Compass if I were to use it with Node.js? I'm new to MongoDB and node.js Please help. Thanks in advance

Upvotes: 23

Views: 41315

Answers (5)

Rediat
Rediat

Reputation: 21

make sure everything you opened in your pc is saved and if you are on windows,go to start and click on the power putton and select resturt. before turning of the pc or resturt , click on the cancel button of the task manager which you will see up on the restarting process on progress. then you will be able to see the mongoDB instalation window with finish button. then click on the finish and install the mongoDB without the compass. after sucessful installation , install the compasss separetly (https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/shell)

Upvotes: 0

Or Assayag
Or Assayag

Reputation: 6336

As for January 2021, I've faced this issue with version 4.4.3. Press cancel on the installation won't help, and need to close the PowerShell process.

Then, Re-install without the compass, and after successful installation, install manually only the compass itself.

Upvotes: 13

Muhammad Awais
Muhammad Awais

Reputation: 4492

Downloading/installing version 4.0.14 worked for me.

Upvotes: 2

Iris Huang
Iris Huang

Reputation: 31

Please refer to the following link. https://checkinnuggets.wordpress.com/2018/01/14/installation-update-of-mongodb-3-6-2-on-windows-hangs/

Instead of choosing Complete Installation, choose "Custom" instead, then at the last step, uncheck 'Install MongoDB Compass'. This will complete the installation.

Upvotes: 2

Rishabh Agarwal
Rishabh Agarwal

Reputation: 2172

Compass is a GUI client which can be used to manages collections, documents etc.

To do development in Node.JS (or any other programming language) you do not need Compass as it is a GUI tool which is a mongo client.

You can use mongo CLI client(Recommended). If you really need GUI tool, you can try Robo 3T.

Only MongoDB server + any client is needed for most web development. Any client can be used to configure it, like CLI or Robo 3T or compass.

Although, you even don't need local installation of mongoDB server. You can use a cloud database like MongoDB Atlas. It has all tools inbuilt as is very powerful. However I would still recommend doing a local installation of mongo server to avoid dependency of network while testing your app.

Upvotes: 9

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