On Monday 22 November 2010, Michael Zedeler wrote: > Hi everybody. > > I am having a major headache trying to install the latest CouchDB > (1.0.1) on debian 5.0. > > It turns out that the latest available version of CouchDB on debian is > version 0.8. In CouchDB-terms that release is lightyears behind version > 1.0.1. We simply can't use version 0.8 because of the changes in the API > that were introduced later. > > I decided to try compiling from source, but got stuck because erlang > version 5.6.5 (or later) isn't available either (debian 5.0 provides > version 5.6.3). This means that I'd be forced to not only maintain my > own build of CouchDB, but erlang as well. > > Besides switching to the testing distribution, does anyone have any > suggestions? > What other platforms are known to be stable wrt. CouchDB hosting? I > found that Arch Linux supports CouchDB 1.0.1, but I have no experience > maintaining machines running this distribution. > > Regards, > > Michael. Well testing is pretty stable at the moment, its about to be releases as the next stable. But the lockdown has mean that testing/sid are only on 0.11, which is better but not up to date.
There is also a problem that I have been unable to resolve, which is that a default installation of the Debian sid package leaves a system on which the futon test suite fails completely. David
