Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 91438 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2010 14:06:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by 140.211.11.9 with SMTP; 22 Nov 2010 14:06:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 3931 invoked by uid 500); 22 Nov 2010 14:06:51 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-couchdb-user-archive@couchdb.apache.org Received: (qmail 3840 invoked by uid 500); 22 Nov 2010 14:06:50 -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 3832 invoked by uid 99); 22 Nov 2010 14:06:50 -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 14:06:50 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=10.0 tests=FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of robert.newson@gmail.com designates 209.85.212.52 as permitted sender) Received: from [209.85.212.52] (HELO mail-vw0-f52.google.com) (209.85.212.52) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:06:45 +0000 Received: by vws3 with SMTP id 3so3307898vws.11 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:06:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=hpescrdA+bJCczrVfvv+6FumW899AuBDz5ktN5TrK7U=; b=kcp5hqDAcsY/2gBuxAXnUpbF9RMZtbaZJIY70YGgcpaNYVCwXsuvL1F04kQpSxeSCY 4bMCRWcMddCwrvhWc6G85Jl4/wl0nAW9sbGZHhWFtqga1aN5SGJ4xw2NSgWK7onl1XAG qnfcbdqJn1pBXZNwQ2TBJlE8W5UeF7+zxni5w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=NsGL1PY39z4D9Cg78yeBleVBGXmzFWS5ptj/4zBFXlENuN0A+40wqit6duuK/qjLbp TDgFelz/9lIo7qSOjKIJF09D5iF6Sr51Aq6q+1KeH/tSHvOwYuDpnoCi4pV9WNwQq1Bn XaskThakjG3dTFtGNtTpk9bkrPlPWVE15ljoI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.241.194 with SMTP id lf2mr5035553qcb.164.1290434784437; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:06:24 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.229.100.65 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 06:06:23 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <4CEA74EF.7000208@zedeler.dk> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:06:23 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: CouchDB on debian? From: Robert Newson To: user@couchdb.apache.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 fwiw, my solution to the same problem was to backport Erlang (very easy) and then install couchdb from source. B. On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Stefan Klein wrote: > 2010/11/22 Michael Zedeler : >> 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. >> >> > > You could use a backport, see: > http://bitsandpieces.jonmoniaci.com/2010/05/couchdb-0-11-backport-for-lenny/ > > I switched to squeeze, so i didn't test those packages. > > regards, > Stefan >