ami-f2f6159b apt-get update apt-get install git-core "g++-4.1" apt-get install python-setuptools libpcre3-dev apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-dev libboost-thread-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-date-time-dev see: http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Building+Spider+Monkey ln -s /usr/bin/g++-4.1 /usr/bin/g++ ln -s /usr/bin/gcc-4.1 /usr/bin/gcc easy_install scons git clone git://github.com/mongodb/mongo.git cd mongo scons all