Randall, I've found the time to test your PPA on Ubuntu Oneiric server 32bit.
Following *exactly* your instructions, I've installed couchdb-1.0.1 from Ubuntu repositories, because you forgot to `apt-get update` after `apt-add-repository`. Then I've tried to "dist-upgrade". This went well, but the old service failed to stop during upgrade. So I had to kill the old process before starting the new one. However this is not a problem of your PPA. Then I've run the test suite from Futon and it worked. Can I suggest to use Upstart instead of the old system? It's trivially easy to setup, and it's much more reliable. It never happened to me that stopping of a service fails with upstart. I can send you the configuration I'm using if you want. Thanks, Marcello 2012/1/20 Randall Leeds <[email protected]>: > 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
