The Ubuntu instructions are the wiki are incredible difficult to follow because things have changed in the Ubuntu repositories, mostly around SpiderMonkey, and it's really hard to communicate it all in the wiki. I've tried and I've edited that page a number of times but I know there are problems... I'll comb back through it. Sorry for that.
I wish I had caught this thread earlier, but if you wouldn't mind testing out my PPA for Ubuntu, that would be great. It should install 1.1.1 on any Natty with no trouble. $ apt-get install python-software-properties <- needed for next command $ apt-add-repository ppa:randall-leeds/couchdb $ apt-get install couchdb $ update-rc.d couchdb defaults <- start at startup I haven't put this on the wiki because I haven't received feedback yet from people tell me it worked for them. -Randall
