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Subject: RE: Help installing CouchDB on Ubuntu
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2011 20:29:08 -0400
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This is all very frustrating. Couchdb is wonderful, but not if you can't
install it. 

build-couchdb at https://github.com/iriscouch/build-couchdb looks great. It
says it works on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). If I roll back to that
version of Ubuntu, will I be relatively safe? I know nothing's perfect. I
just want to have a good chance to succeed.

I tried a bunch of things that were suggested the other day, but couldn't
get anything to work.

I'd like to use Ubuntu. Is there a version, any version, of Ubuntu that has
a reliable couchdb install? 

Please forgive me for complaining. I know all of you and the couchdb dev
team are working hard to do great stuff. I want to do great stuff with
couchdb, but I'm stuck. Before, I thought it was just me and my newbie-ness.
But, it doesn't seem like anyone can get this to work.

Thanks for any help!

   Clarke

-----Original Message-----
From: john.tiger [mailto:john.tigernassau@gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 8:08 PM
To: user@couchdb.apache.org
Subject: Re: Help installing CouchDB on Ubuntu

I believe that programmers ought to be able to upgrade / build packages 
so we should be able to get 1.1.0 downloaded and working (with 1.1.1 
soon on the way)

But I just spent the last few hours trying to update my 11.10 to Couch 
1.1.0 which the wiki suggests - I tried to follow someone's instructions 
for building 1.1.0 in 11.04 but now Ubuntu no longer has xulrunner in 
the repositories (frustrating!)

so question is :
a) should we download xulrunner-1.9.2-dev from Natty repository and use 
in 11.10 ?
b) Debian shows no xulrunner-1.9.2 but does show 1.9.1.x and 2.0 in 
experimental - should we use that ?
c) if there's not a good reason for ubuntu to start dumping key packages 
should we switch to Linux Mint with debian testing ?

or should Couch get out of the xulrunner dependency ?


On 10/26/2011 01:50 PM, CGS wrote:
> Even if it is recommended the latest version, if something is working, 
> do not touch it unless you know what you do or you are forced to do 
> it. That's my sincere piece of advice.
>
> If you installed it from "Batteries Included", then you should have 
> default.ini and local.in under /etc/couchdb/, and the couchdb daemon 
> under /etc/init.d/. You don't need anything else (no extra user, no 
> extra building) but to configure it for your needs (in the ini's 
> files). If you have problems in starting/stopping/restarting and so 
> on, just type man couchdb and press enter (use stop and start after 
> few seconds to be sure you restart it correctly - sometimes Erlang 
> processes tend to report stop while they are still in the process of 
> stopping). Check this out to start using CouchDB:
>
> http://guide.couchdb.org/editions/1/en/index.html
>
> and if you forget the commands there, just take a look into the short 
> version of that documentation:
>
> http://jpmens.net/2010/04/20/the-antepenultimate-couchdb-reference-card/
>
> So, sit back and relax while reading about couch. :)
>
> Welcome to this community!
>
> Cheers,
> CGS
>
>
>
> On 10/26/2011 09:31 PM, Vince Cardillo wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I was able to get CouchDB 1.0.1 installed and running via these
>> instructions: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu. I
>> followed the very top "Batteries Included" instructions.
>>
>> I'm a little wary to try and upgrade it though--I'm about one step up 
>> from a
>> Linux noob. It's been a while.
>>
>> whereis couchdb
>> couchdb: /usr/bin/couchdb /etc/couchdb /usr/lib/couchdb 
>> /usr/share/couchdb
>> /usr/share/man/man1/couchdb.1.gz
>>
>> I am not sure how I would upgrade it.
>>
>> - vince
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:18 PM, CGS<cgsmcmlxxv@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> So, Ubuntu 11 doesn't have any CouchDB package? Strange. Because 
>>> Ubuntu 10
>>> has CouchDB 0.9.
>>>
>>> Vince, what you did is correct, only that you need to install CouchDB
>>> before. Using build-couchdb may not put it in the correct path for 
>>> you to
>>> follow those instructions. If you want to run it as user and you use
>>> build-couchdb, then you don't need anymore those steps. Just don't 
>>> forget to
>>> start CouchDB with -b option (given that build-couchdb will be 
>>> successful).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> CGS
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/26/2011 08:27 PM, kowsik wrote:
>>>
>>>> Try this: 
>>>> https://gist.github.com/**1171217<https://gist.github.com/1171217>.
>>>> Uses build-couchdb from
>>>> @iriscouch to build everything from source, configure couchdb, hookup
>>>> logrotate, etc.
>>>>
>>>> K.
>>>> ---
>>>> http://blitz.io
>>>> @pcapr
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Vince Cardillo<vcardillo@gmail.com>
>>>>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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<http://wi
ki.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
>>>>>
>>>>>
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