On 10/22/2012 12:08 PM, JC de Villa wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Hahn <mark@hahnca.com> wrote:
>
>> I have a number of servers on AWS for my day job. For my weekend projects
>> I need a free dev environment. My wife doesn't like spending money.
>>
>> I'm sure I can find a solution. I'm working with webfaction now to see if
>> they can donate the hosting.
>>
>> I spent a half-day trying to set up my dev environment in virtualbox on my
>> local PC. But all I could find were ubuntu desktops and I just want a
>> headless server with SSH. That is all I'm familiar with. I tried to set
>> one up myself but it was a disaster.
>
>
> Here's the page for the server download:
>
> http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server
>
> Although I'd suggest compiling your own couchdb, since the only one
> available from the repo is version 1.0.1. I'm sure there's a ppa somewhere
> for a more up-to-date version, but compiling on ubuntu it is fairly trivial.
>
I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several
sources with directions. I made a quick reference here:
gist.github.com/3940371
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Regards,
Brian
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