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Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 14:06:33 +0000 (UTC)
From: "Dale Harvey (JIRA)" <jira@apache.org>
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Subject: [jira] [Created] (COUCHDB-2383) Installation instructions are wrong
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Dale Harvey created COUCHDB-2383:
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             Summary: Installation instructions are wrong
                 Key: COUCHDB-2383
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-2383
             Project: CouchDB
          Issue Type: Bug
      Security Level: public (Regular issues)
          Components: Documentation
            Reporter: Dale Harvey


As someone who doesnt build couchdb a lot, when I do it is fustrating

I visited http://couchdb.apache.org/, clicked contribute, there was a huge wall of text, I think the calls to action should be clearer. I found "Git workflow" but it links to an empty wiki page, I then decided to go back and through the documentation, I found http://docs.couchdb.org/en/1.6.1/install/mac.html, the dependencies are wrong, there is little information on installing from source.

I then took a look at https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/master/INSTALL.Unix, it also had the wrong dependencies and no mention of how to start a dev cluster (./configure && make && python2 dev/run) 


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