How to install Robo 3T on Ubuntu Linux

This brief tutorial shows you how to install Robo 3T (formally RoboMongo) on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04.

Robo 3T is a free, open-source, cross-platform MongoDB GUI management tool with an embedded Mongo shell, real auto-completion support, and a load of features that anyone can use to manage MongoDB databases.

Whether you’re using Windows, macOS, or Linux, Robo 3T should be right for you. Robo 3T has an embedded MongoDB shell – the same shell in MongoDB, with full synchronous UI with modern and robust open-source community backing.

For more about Robo 3T, go to this website.

There are many ways to install Robo 3T on Ubuntu. Below are just two of the most popular methods of installing Robo 3T.

Install via Official Package

Students and new users can use this method to get Robo 3T on Ubuntu systems. Go and download the official package from their website.

After downloading, you can use the commands below to change into the Downloads folder, extract the downloaded file, and make the setup script executable.

cd ~/Downloads
tar -xvzf studio-3t-robo-3t-linux-double-pack.tar.gz
sudo chmod +x studio-3t-linux-x64.sh

After running the above, run the commands below to launch the setup wizard.

sudo bash studio-3t-linux-x64.sh

That should start the setup wizard. Simply accept the default and complete the setup.

Click Next to continue.

Accept the default destination directory to install Robo 3T content and click Next.

Click Finish to complete the setup. After a brief moment, Robo 3T should open up and be ready to use.

That should do it!

Install via Snap

Another way to install Robo 3T on Ubuntu is via Snap package management. Snaps are containerized software packages that are simple to create and install.

Snap applications are packaged with all their dependencies to run on all popular Linux distributions from a single build, allowing them to update automatically and roll back gracefully.

If the first option above isn’t working, run the commands below to install Robo 3T via Snap.

sudo snap install robo3t-snap

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to install Robo 3T on Ubuntu 20.04 | 18.04. If you find any error above, please use the comment form below to report.