Install

Checkout source

dpavlin@t61p:/rest/cvs$ git clone git://github.com/mongodb/mongo.git
Initialized empty Git repository in /rest/cvs/mongo/.git/
remote: Counting objects: 32011, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (9340/9340), done.
remote: Total 32011 (delta 22724), reused 31556 (delta 22412)
Receiving objects: 100% (32011/32011), 20.57 MiB | 1.12 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (22724/22724), done.

Install build dependencies

dpavlin@t61p:/rest/cvs/mongo$ sudo apt-get install \
 libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-date-time-dev \
 libpcre3-dev xulrunner-dev

Build Debian package

dpavlin@t61p:/rest/cvs$ cd mongo/
dpavlin@t61p:/rest/cvs/mongo$ dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -b