Mongoose Quick Start for Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca
The Tutorial shows you How to Install and Getting-Started with Mongoose for MongoDB on Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca i386/amd64 Desktop.
Mongoose provides a straight-forward, schema-based solution to modeling your application data and includes built-in type casting, validation, query building, business logic hooks and more, out of the box.

Open a Command Line Terminal Window
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)In case first see: Terminal QuickStart Guide.
How to Install the Latest Node.js on Linux Mint
Installing Mongoose by Npm:
npm install mongoose
Getting-Started with Mongoose First, Steps