Sam & CGS, I took your advice! I'm going to try to stay with Ubuntu 11.10.
But, I've got spidermonkey problems. I've been following: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu I got down to ./configure, and got this error: configure: error: Could not find the js library. Is the Mozilla SpiderMonkey library installed? Then, I followed CGS' advice and did this: git clone git://github.com/membase/spidermonkey.git Now, I've got spidermonkey, but I can't figure out how to install it. https://developer.mozilla.org/En/SpiderMonkey/Build_Documentation said to do this: cd js/src autoconf-2.13 ./configure Make But, I don't have a js/src directory. I also don't have autoconf-2.13 installed. Do I need this? Thanks for patience and help for all of you. Sorry, I'm so slow with it all! Clarke -----Original Message----- From: Sam Bisbee [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Linux Alternatives for CouchDB This is your best bet: http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu Cheers, -- Sam Bisbee On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Clarke Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > Are there any good instructions somewhere for handling the spidermonkey > dependency and for installing on Ubuntu 11.10? > > Either way, I'm going to have to learn whichever Linux distro, so I really > don't care which one. Ubuntu seems to offer some nice GUI tools which is why > I picked it. I only installed version 11.10 because I did not anticipate the > problems I'm having. I really don't care about that either. > > Thanks to all for your help! > > Clarke > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sam Bisbee [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 11:13 AM > To: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Linux Alternatives for CouchDB > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Clarke Bishop > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I am setting up a development environment to learn CouchDB. But, I'm using >> Windows. >> >> I tried Cygwin, but kept running into various problems. So, I decided to >> switch to Linux running under VMware. I still think this is the best >> direction. >> >> I downloaded the latest version of Ubuntu (11.10) and installed it. But, >> then I discovered that CouchDB 1.1 support was limited, and I haven't been >> able to get CouchDB installed. > > Hi Clarke, > > I have been running CouchDB since 0.9.x on various versions of Debian > and Ubuntu. It can be a pain to install because of the spidermonkey > dependency, but that's gotten a ton easier. > > What is the issue that you are seeing when trying to install? > > Cheers, > > -- > Sam Bisbee > >
