From user-return-18531-apmail-couchdb-user-archive=couchdb.apache.org@couchdb.apache.org Wed Oct 26 18:16:27 2011 Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CF2B777E6 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:16:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 49819 invoked by uid 500); 26 Oct 2011 18:16:26 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 49778 invoked by uid 500); 26 Oct 2011 18:16:26 -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 49765 invoked by uid 99); 26 Oct 2011 18:16:26 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:16:26 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.5 required=5.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of vcardillo@gmail.com designates 74.125.82.42 as permitted sender) Received: from [74.125.82.42] (HELO mail-ww0-f42.google.com) (74.125.82.42) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:16:19 +0000 Received: by wwn22 with SMTP id 22so7168001wwn.5 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:15:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=rLtNti6uvKcYcmThTWeFtx3hfoo8tWemq3t01XOTzFc=; b=VMfbVl5Nh4yTEGQWcxCmVlCe/8FipE2/S0kT8xSgPcKn7BShwP5E1UD+vA4IMAQqzj 6W04bcZUSRSF84Wp8rx/uj65Pq2QBVdxG+PWb1oSJFEsfOz/JhU9W+Q2oDXmNYkwuuwT 9mRH/CcvtYahXKd2Ysi0oa/mcUoDOs0Kx85qg= Received: by 10.227.205.2 with SMTP id fo2mr11358078wbb.21.1319652958562; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:15:58 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.60.67 with HTTP; Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:15:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Vince Cardillo Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 14:15:38 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Help installing CouchDB on Ubuntu To: user@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd59bd4d268cc04b037a5b2 --000e0cd59bd4d268cc04b037a5b2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi all, I wanted to install CouchDB on the free tier of Amazon Web Services so that I could play wiht and explore it. I was following these instructions: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting_started_with_Amazon_EC2 The 2nd line says this: Start the Ubuntu 8.10 server image, ami-5059be39 I searched for that image, and it isn't found in the AWS EC2 listing. So I instead installed Ubuntu 11.10 (GNU/Linux 3.0.0-12-virtual i686) (AMI ID: ami-2e90242f). I got through most of the steps, until I hit this step: sudo adduser --system --home /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb --no-create-home --shell /bin/bash --group --gecos 'CouchDB account' couchdb It specifies a home directory, but then has the no-create-home flag, and so at the end it says "not creating home directory". The next command results in this error: chown: cannot access `/usr/local/var/lib/couchdb': No such file or directory This command is listed as optional: sudo vim /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini However, that directory doesn't exist. One more thing. If I run "whereis yum" I get this: yum: /usr/bin/yum /etc/yum /usr/share/man/man8/yum.8.gz If I run "whereis couchdb" I get this: couchdb: Step 8 says: sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb I do that and get this: sudo: unable to change directory to /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb: No such file or directory sudo: unable to execute /bin/bash: No such file or directory Right now I am pretty stuck. I am not sure if couchdb installed correctly or not via the prior steps. And I am not really sure where it is, how to start/stop it, etc. Help is very appreciated! Thank you for any help, - vince --000e0cd59bd4d268cc04b037a5b2--