Installing MongoDB in Ubuntu 12.04

Unable to install latest version in Ubuntu 12.04
Refer: http://gordoncluster.wordpress.com/2013/07/12/how-to-install-mongodb-on-virtualbox-ubuntu-12-04/

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 7F0CEB10
echo 'deb http://downloads-distro.mongodb.org/repo/ubuntu-upstart dist 10gen' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/10gen.list
sudo apt-get update

We're going to specifically install an older version (you will need to run this as root):
sudo su -
apt-get install mongodb-10gen=2.2.3

The service should already be running, the output: mongodb start/running, process 2254
sudo service mongodb status | stop | start

now we just run:
mongo

The output you should see is:
MongoDB shell version: 2.2.3
connecting to: test
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UI Tools
http://www.robomongo.org/

MongoDB Restore

$ mongorestore --drop testcms

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