Hi there,

I am one of the maintainers of https://github.com/flapdoodle-oss/de.flapdoodle.embed.mongo which downloads the mongod binaries extract it and fires mongod up to test some code against it.

It does download the legacy linux tgz file for that - https://fastdl.mongodb.org/linux/mongodb-linux-x86_64-4.2.0.tgz for example.

However since 4.2.0 there is no legacy linux tgz anymore... Well it was legacy  But I was wondering what to do now

Why are there different tgz binaries for multiple linux distros? - shouldn't the code be identical? What would be a useful replacement, since I can't install a real package or anything that requires root privileges.

Thanks in advance