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. Uses build-couchdb from
@iriscouch to build everything from source, configure couchdb, hookup
logrotate, etc.
K.
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On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Vince Cardillo<[email protected]> 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
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
