Overview
Learn how to install libmongocrypt, a core component
of Client-Side Field Level Encryption.
Warning
Do not build libmongocrypt from source. Use one of the installation
methods listed on this page.
macOS Installation
brew install mongodb/brew/libmongocrypt 
Windows Installation
Click here
to see the latest libmongocrypt release.
Use gpg to verify the signature. The public key for libmongocrypt
is available here.
Linux Installation
Debian
Import the public key used to sign the package repositories:
sudo sh -c 'curl -s --location https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc | gpg --dearmor >/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/libmongocrypt.gpg' 
Add the MongoDB repository to your package sources:
Important
Change <release> in the following shell command to your platform release (e.g. "xenial" or "buster").
echo "deb https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/apt/debian <release>/libmongocrypt/1.16 main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libmongocrypt.list 
Update the package cache:
sudo apt-get update 
Install libmongocrypt:
sudo apt-get install -y libmongocrypt-dev 
Ubuntu
Import the public key used to sign the package repositories:
sudo sh -c 'curl -s --location https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc | gpg --dearmor >/etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/libmongocrypt.gpg' 
Add the MongoDB repository to your package sources:
Important
Change <release> in the following shell command to your platform release (e.g. "xenial" or "buster").
echo "deb https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/apt/ubuntu <release>/libmongocrypt/1.16 universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/libmongocrypt.list 
Update the package cache:
sudo apt-get update 
Install libmongocrypt:
sudo apt-get install -y libmongocrypt-dev 
RedHat
Create a repository file for the libmongocrypt package:
[libmongocrypt] name=libmongocrypt repository baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/redhat/$releasever/libmongocrypt/1.16/x86_64 gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc 
Install the libmongocrypt package:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt 
Amazon Linux 2
Create a repository file for the libmongocrypt package:
[libmongocrypt] name=libmongocrypt repository baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/amazon/2/libmongocrypt/1.16/x86_64 gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc 
Install the libmongocrypt package:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt 
Amazon Linux 2023
Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/libmongocrypt.repo
repository file:
[libmongocrypt] name=libmongocrypt repository baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/amazon/2023/libmongocrypt/1.16/x86_64 gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc 
Install the libmongocrypt package:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt 
Amazon Linux
Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/libmongocrypt.repo
repository file:
[libmongocrypt] name=libmongocrypt repository baseurl=https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/yum/amazon/2013.03/libmongocrypt/1.16/x86_64 gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 gpgkey=https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc 
Install the libmongocrypt package:
sudo yum install -y libmongocrypt 
Suse
Import the public key used to sign the package repositories:
sudo rpm --import https://pgp.mongodb.com/libmongocrypt.asc 
Add the repository to your package sources:
Important
Change <release> in the following shell command to your platform release (e.g. "12" or "15").
sudo zypper addrepo --gpgcheck "https://libmongocrypt.s3.amazonaws.com/zypper/suse/<release>/libmongocrypt/1.16/x86_64" libmongocrypt 
Install the libmongocrypt package:
sudo zypper -n install libmongocrypt