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 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
