From user-return-13866-apmail-couchdb-user-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Mon Nov 22 13:54:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 79055 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2010 13:54:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 22 Nov 2010 13:54:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 88689 invoked by uid 500); 22 Nov 2010 13:55:15 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 88547 invoked by uid 500); 22 Nov 2010 13:55:14 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@couchdb.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@couchdb.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 88538 invoked by uid 99); 22 Nov 2010 13:55:14 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:55:14 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=10.0 tests=SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: neutral (athena.apache.org: local policy) Received: from [192.160.109.2] (HELO apollo.linkchoose.co.uk) (192.160.109.2) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:55:08 +0000 Received: from [10.0.1.55] (helo=stargate.localnet) by apollo.linkchoose.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKXmw-0002cs-OG for user@couchdb.apache.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:54:38 +0000 From: David Goodenough Organization: Linkchoose Ltd To: user@couchdb.apache.org Subject: Re: CouchDB on debian? Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:54:42 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32-5-686; KDE/4.4.5; i686; ; ) References: <4CEA74EF.7000208@zedeler.dk> In-Reply-To: <4CEA74EF.7000208@zedeler.dk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011221354.42254.david.goodenough@linkchoose.co.uk> On Monday 22 November 2010, Michael Zedeler wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I am having a major headache trying to install the latest CouchDB > (1.0.1) on debian 5.0. > > It turns out that the latest available version of CouchDB on debian is > version 0.8. In CouchDB-terms that release is lightyears behind version > 1.0.1. We simply can't use version 0.8 because of the changes in the API > that were introduced later. > > I decided to try compiling from source, but got stuck because erlang > version 5.6.5 (or later) isn't available either (debian 5.0 provides > version 5.6.3). This means that I'd be forced to not only maintain my > own build of CouchDB, but erlang as well. > > Besides switching to the testing distribution, does anyone have any > suggestions? > What other platforms are known to be stable wrt. CouchDB hosting? I > found that Arch Linux supports CouchDB 1.0.1, but I have no experience > maintaining machines running this distribution. > > Regards, > > Michael. Well testing is pretty stable at the moment, its about to be releases as the next stable. But the lockdown has mean that testing/sid are only on 0.11, which is better but not up to date. There is also a problem that I have been unable to resolve, which is that a default installation of the Debian sid package leaves a system on which the futon test suite fails completely. David