I've been trying to install various versions of couchdb on ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) with varied success:
(1) from apache-couchdb-1.1.1.tar.gz Needed to adept the instructions on https://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu: The lack of xulrunner-1.9.2 on ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric) made me pick the following packages (not sure if that is a minimal list): sudo apt-get install libmozjs-dev libicu-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libtool erlang-eunit erlang-dev ./configure (no options) Maybe this is helpful and someone can amend the website with this information. Still some failing tests - initially due to the fact that I ran the testsuite from Safari - but subsequently also on re-runs from Firefox. Is this a known issue or would details help? There is also some inconsistency when tests are run on an aws ec2 instance versus on a local vm instance (some test fail on the former, but not on the latter: replicator_db: 1. Assertion failed: typeof repDoc2._replication_state === "undefined" 2. Assertion failed: typeof repDoc2._replication_state_time === "undefined" stats: 1. Assertion 'triggered, "We managed to force a all_dbs_active error."' failed: We managed to force a all_dbs_active error. (2) from apache-couchdb-1.0.3.tar.gz Can't build due to: configure: error: Could not find the js library. Is the Mozilla SpiderMonkey library installed? I think the problem here is the lack of xulrunner-1.9.2, which I could not locate for ubuntu 11.10 (oneiric). Are there any workarounds? (3) couchdb-1.2.0 using build-couchdb Success, but several failing tests. This is somewhat expected, but I can provide details if that would help. (4) couchdb-1.1.1 and couchdb-1.0.3 using build-couchdb Could not manage to get a clear checkout - trying to find out why via https://github.com/iriscouch/build-couchdb/issues/42 Any feedback and answers on how to proceed is much appreciated. Andreas
