Why don't you try CouchDB from Ubuntu repository? (sudo aptitude install couchdb)
CGS On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Philippe Rigaux < [email protected]> wrote: > > Hello there, > > I tried desperately to install CouchDB on my Ubuntu server, and I run into > too many problems. Buil-couch fails > with the following command: > > /root/bin/git submodule update > Initialized empty Git repository in > /usr/local/bin/build-couchdb/dependencies/couchdb/.git/ > Cannot get remote repository information. > Perhaps git-update-server-info needs to be run there? > Clone of 'https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git' into > submodule path 'dependencies/couchdb' failed > > > I cannot install from source either. A new version of Erlang (R13B03) needs > to be installed, and it fails miserably as well. > > make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/otp_src_R14B03/lib/hipe/rtl' > erlc -W +debug_info +inline -o../ebin hipe_rtl.erl > pthread/ethr_event.c:98: Fatal error in wait__(): Function not implemented > (38) > make[3]: *** [../ebin/hipe_rtl.beam] Aborted > > I do not give all the details regarding the various packages, dependencies, > and versions discrepancies I had to solve before that. So I am stuck. Any > help would be appreciated. And thanks a lot for your efforts (but having a > distribution relying on more stable softwares would be welcome). > > Best, > > Philippe Rigaux
