I did try couchbase singer server, but had problems with it. Does it work with Ubuntu? Which versions?
I'd just like to know about a combination that can definitely work. Then, I'll troubleshoot if needed. I've just been spinning my wheels trying all sorts of combinations. Thanks for your ideas! Clarke From: Robert Wadholm [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 8:37 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: Help installing CouchDB on Ubuntu Hi Clarke, Have you already tried CouchBase Single Server Community Edition for Linux? http://www.couchbase.com/downloads Might be the easier way to go if you want a packaged deal. Bob Bob Wadholm www.bob.wadholm.com [email protected] GitHub (https://github.com/rwadholm) On Oct 26, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Clarke Bishop wrote: This is all very frustrating. Couchdb is wonderful, but not if you can't install it. build-couchdb at https://github.com/iriscouch/build-couchdb looks great. It says it works on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx). If I roll back to that version of Ubuntu, will I be relatively safe? I know nothing's perfect. I just want to have a good chance to succeed. I tried a bunch of things that were suggested the other day, but couldn't get anything to work. I'd like to use Ubuntu. Is there a version, any version, of Ubuntu that has a reliable couchdb install? Please forgive me for complaining. I know all of you and the couchdb dev team are working hard to do great stuff. I want to do great stuff with couchdb, but I'm stuck. Before, I thought it was just me and my newbie-ness. But, it doesn't seem like anyone can get this to work. Thanks for any help! Clarke -----Original Message----- From: john.tiger [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Help installing CouchDB on Ubuntu 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. --- http://blitz.io @pcapr 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://wi ki.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
