fwiw, my solution to the same problem was to backport Erlang (very easy) and then install couchdb from source.
B. On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Stefan Klein <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/11/22 Michael Zedeler <[email protected]>: >> 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. >> >> > > You could use a backport, see: > http://bitsandpieces.jonmoniaci.com/2010/05/couchdb-0-11-backport-for-lenny/ > > I switched to squeeze, so i didn't test those packages. > > regards, > Stefan >
