Manually rebuilding a package from source is not that hard on debian but does require *some* knowledge of packaging.
I did this to get latest version running on lenny. One must uupdate both erlang and couchdb but it was rather painless. section 9.3 New upstream release from http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ch-update.en.html has the details I could probably even provide detailed instructions if you ask nicely. ~S On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Gabriel Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >> >> >
