It's in the source tarball.
If you're on Ubuntu, you can find it installed into:
/usr/share/doc/couchdb
Take a read through all of the files there, they are all useful.
On 17 Jun 2010, at 12:57, afshin afzali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just followed this : http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu
> in Wiki, where is this README :D
>
> Regards,
> -- afshin
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:22 PM, Noah Slater <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17 Jun 2010, at 12:19, afshin afzali wrote:
>>
>>> After changing the permissions to 646 (I know this causes security issue)
>>> the problem solved!
>>
>> Have you followed the instructions in the correct README file?
>>
>> They include commands to sort out permissions in a secure manner.
>>
>> Specifically, chown them to the couchdb user and put the perms back to 644,
>> or less.
>>
>>