I believe that programmers ought to be able to upgrade / build packages
so we should be able to get 1.1.0 downloaded and working (with 1.1.1
soon on the way)
But I just spent the last few hours trying to update my 11.10 to Couch
1.1.0 which the wiki suggests - I tried to follow someone's instructions
for building 1.1.0 in 11.04 but now Ubuntu no longer has xulrunner in
the repositories (frustrating!)
so question is :
a) should we download xulrunner-1.9.2-dev from Natty repository and use
in 11.10 ?
b) Debian shows no xulrunner-1.9.2 but does show 1.9.1.x and 2.0 in
experimental - should we use that ?
c) if there's not a good reason for ubuntu to start dumping key packages
should we switch to Linux Mint with debian testing ?
or should Couch get out of the xulrunner dependency ?
On 10/26/2011 01:50 PM, CGS wrote:
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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http://blitz.io
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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
