Need to debug meteor mongo on my Ubuntu box

Hello List,

I want to use the shell command:
meteor mongo
on my Ubuntu host

I installed meteor with this shell command:

curl https://install.meteor.com | /bin/sh

I created a new app:

dan@nia111:~ $ 
dan@nia111:~ $ which meteor
/home/dan/.meteor/meteor
dan@nia111:~ $ 
dan@nia111:~ $ 
dan@nia111:~ $ meteor --version
Meteor 1.2.1
dan@nia111:~ $ 
dan@nia111:~ $ meteor create met12
Created a new Meteor app in 'met12'.

To run your new app:
  cd met12
  meteor

If you are new to Meteor, try some of the learning resources here:
  https://www.meteor.com/learn

dan@nia111:~ $ 
dan@nia111:~ $ cd met12
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ meteor
[[[[[ ~/met12 ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
=> Started your app.

=> App running at: http://localhost:3000/

I went to another shell and tried this:

dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ pwd
/home/dan/met12
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ ps -ef|grep mongo
dan       7876  7812  0 04:18 pts/38   00:00:00 grep mongo
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ ps -ef | grep meteor
dan       7724  7593 15 04:16 pts/37   00:00:18 /home/dan/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.10.ki0
dan       7747  7724  0 04:16 pts/37   00:00:00 /home/dan/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.10.ki0
dan       7799  7724  0 04:16 pts/37   00:00:00 /home/dan/.meteor/packages/meteor-tool/.1.1.10.ki0
dan       7878  7812  0 04:18 pts/38   00:00:00 grep meteor
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ meteor mongo
mongo: Meteor isn't running a local MongoDB server.

This command only works while Meteor is running your application locally. Start
your application first with 'meteor' and then run this command in a new
terminal. This error will also occur if you asked Meteor to use a different
MongoDB server with $MONGO_URL when you ran your application.

If you're trying to connect to the database of an app you deployed with
'meteor deploy', specify your site's name as an argument to this command.
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ env|grep MONGO
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 
dan@nia111:~/met12 $ 

Perhaps the shell command
meteor mongo
only works on Mac?

Please supply any ideas or tips you may have I can use to get meteor mongo to work on my Ubuntu box.

Thanks,

Dan

Works fine Ubuntu 15.04, Meteor 1.2

It is easy to work around this bug.

I should just use the mongo shell command:

mongo meteor --port=3001

I can use find to find it:

find ~/.meteor -name mongo -print