- Python 3.5+ or 2.7 (only tested with 2.7, 3.5 and 3.7, 3.8 and 3.10)
- PyMongo 3.12+ (tested with versions 3.12 and 4.0)
Once you've installed the dependencies, and downloaded and unpacked the mongotail source release, enter the directory where the archive was unpacked, and run:
pip install .
Note that you may need administrator/root privileges for this step, as this command will by default attempt to install module to the Python site-packages directory on your system.
For advanced options, please refer to the easy_install and/or the distutils documentation.
First, install essential build packages and Python build tools with:
$ apt-get install python3-pip python3-dev build-essential python3-setuptools