On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Benoit Chesneau wrote: > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Julian Moritz wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Paul Davis schrieb: >>> Julian, >>> >>> As the user that should run couchdb can you do: >>> >>>     $ couchdb -i >>> >>> And report what's printed. If nothing other than the Erlang shell appears try: >>> >>>     1> application:start(couch). >>> >>> and report what that does. >>> >> >> I see this: >> >> julian@laptop:~$ couchdb -i >> Erlang R13B01 (erts-5.7.2) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0] >> [kernel-poll:true] >> >> Eshell V5.7.2  (abort with ^G) >> 1> application:start(couch). >> {error,{not_started,crypto}} >> >> >> > build erlang with crypto support (with openssl). > > - benoit > on ubuntu that requires erlang-crypto package. _ benoit