If you're looking to just get an up-and-running, recent CouchDB, you may want to check out some of the options at http://www.couchone.com/get.
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Michael Zedeler <[email protected]> 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. > >
