Hi Volker, Thanks for the quick response!
I am working on Ubuntu's Jaunty (an April 2009 release) and was under the wrong notion that it might be packaging a relatively newer version of erlang, but apparently not. I tried compiling couchdb source with the R12B-5 version but it gave the same error. It finally got resolved with the R14B version though. I can now browse futon and even got the answer to my second question -- i.e the ".couch" files. Will investigate further and come back with more queries if needed. Thanks again for your time. Regards, Ankur On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Volker Mische <[email protected]>wrote: > On 10/25/2010 04:04 PM, Ankur Verma wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am totally new to CouchDB and am facing some problems in installing > > and running it from source on Ubuntu 9.04. > > > > I have checked out the source from > > > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk > > Repository Root: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf > > Revision: 1024539 > > > > Referred the link http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/source.html for > > installing. During installation i faced a make error: > > //usr/bin/erlc mochiglobal.erl/ > > /./mochiglobal.erl:36: type boolean() undefined/ > > This means that your Erlang is too old. > > Cheers, > Volker > >
