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<[email protected]> 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.
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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<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
