Install couchdb ubuntu Jaunty

Submitted by Sam Rose on Sun, 09/20/2009 - 00:13

Install couch db ubuntu jaunty

sudo apt-get install build-essential m4 libssl-dev libncurses-dev

sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses-dev \
unixodbc-dev libssl-dev \
libwxgtk2.8-dev default-jdk
curl http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B01.tar.gz
tar xzvf otp_src_R13B01.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R13B01/
./configure
make
sudo make install

sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libicu-dev libmozjs-dev

wget http://apache.mirroring.de/couchdb/0.9.1/apache-couchdb-0.9.1.tar.gz
tar zxf apache-couchdb-0.9.1.tar.gz
cd apache-couchdb-0.9.1
./configure --sharedstatedir=/var/local --localstatedir=/var/local
make
sudo make install

You need to create a user for couchdb

sudo useradd -d /var/local/lib/couchdb couchdb
sudo chown couchdb. /var/local/lib/couchdb
sudo chmod 750 /var/local/lib/couchdb

sudo cp -v /usr/local/etc/init.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb

/etc/init.d/couchdb start