# Install mongosh with Homebrew, Nix, scoop

MongoDB Shell to connect, configure, query, and work with your MongoDB database. Version 2.9.2 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-20. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#mongosh.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:mongosh
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install mongosh
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#mongosh
```

  Evidence: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mongosh/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Windows

- Scoop (92%):

```sh
scoop install extras/mongosh
```

  Evidence: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mongosh.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:mongosh
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2.9.2
- **Source summary:** MongoDB Shell to connect, configure, query, and work with your MongoDB database
- **Homepage:** <https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/shell>
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-20T13:51:29-04:00
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- mongosh (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 2.9.2
## Project history and usage

mongosh is the MongoDB Shell, MongoDB's modern JavaScript and Node.js REPL for interacting with MongoDB deployments in Atlas, local installations, or remote hosts. MongoDB introduced the first preview on 2020-06-08 after deciding that extending the legacy mongo shell was not the right path for a growing MongoDB platform.

### Project history

The redesign focused on a shell that could be extensible, embeddable in other products, and easier to use in terminals. The public changelog records mongosh v1.0 on 2021-07-09, after a preview series that added features such as transactions support, AWS IAM authentication, script loading, --eval, .mongoshrc.js customization, MongoDB 5.0 support, Stable API-aware autocomplete, and snippets. The GitHub repository is a monorepo for shell components across REPL, browser, Compass, and related environments.

### How it is used

Users run mongosh to test queries, inspect and change data, configure settings, and script database operations with shell helpers on top of the MongoDB driver. MongoDB distributes it as an Apache-2.0 standalone product separate from the MongoDB Server, and package managers such as Homebrew, Nix, and Scoop make it available independently from server releases.

### Sources

- <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/mongosh>
- <https://github.com/mongodb-js/mongosh>
- <https://www.mongodb.com/company/blog/product-release-announcement/introducing-the-new-shell>
- <https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/>
- <https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/changelog/>
- <https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/shell>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal. generalized runtime or code generation signal.

- **Geiger risk:** yellow / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal
- generalized runtime or code generation signal

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - mongosh: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/mo/mongosh/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Scoop - extras/mongosh: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/mongosh.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/mongosh.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/mongosh.yml)


## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- curated package history
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph