How to install Robomongo from tar.gz file as a program in Ubuntu 15.10

Question

Nowadays robomongo developers releasing the new versions of robomongo as tar.gz not in .deb packages that was easy for double click installations. But that option is no longer available. So how to install it as a program in Ubuntu. I have tried extracting the package and install but failed.

admin@admin-lenovo:~$ cd Downloads/
admin@admin-lenovo:~/Downloads$ tar -xzf robomongo-0.9.0-rc4-linux-x86_64-8c830b6.tar.gz 
admin@admin-lenovo:~/Downloads$ cd robomongo-0.9.0-rc4-linux-x86_64-8c830b6/
admin@admin-lenovo:~/Downloads/robomongo-0.9.0-rc4-linux-x86_64-8c830b6$ ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

Also .make and ./install failed as no files found. How to install it as a program?

Answer 1

Robomongo is now Robo 3T. Following are the updated steps:

1. Download the tar file from robomongo site. The current file is robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0.tar.gz, but yours could be different.

2. Open up the terminal, switch to download directory and run the following commands:

   $ tar -xvzf robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0.tar.gz
   $ sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin/robomongo
   $ sudo mv  robo3t-1.1.1-linux-x86_64-c93c6b0/* /usr/local/bin/robomongo
   $ cd /usr/local/bin/robomongo/bin
   $ sudo chmod +x robo3t 
   $ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc
   

3. Add the following line to the end of .bashrc file:

   alias robomongo='/usr/local/bin/robomongo/bin/robo3t'

4. Save and close the file. Now reload it using the following command:

   $ source ~/.bashrc
   

5. Then you can run robomongo from your terminal and it will work:

   $ robomongo