On 10/22/2012 12:08 PM, JC de Villa wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a number of servers on AWS for my day job. For my weekend projects >> I need a free dev environment. My wife doesn't like spending money. >> >> I'm sure I can find a solution. I'm working with webfaction now to see if >> they can donate the hosting. >> >> I spent a half-day trying to set up my dev environment in virtualbox on my >> local PC. But all I could find were ubuntu desktops and I just want a >> headless server with SSH. That is all I'm familiar with. I tried to set >> one up myself but it was a disaster. > > > Here's the page for the server download: > > http://www.ubuntu.com/download/server > > Although I'd suggest compiling your own couchdb, since the only one > available from the repo is version 1.0.1. I'm sure there's a ppa somewhere > for a more up-to-date version, but compiling on ubuntu it is fairly trivial. >
I could not find a ppa for a current couchdb, but I did find several sources with directions. I made a quick reference here: gist.github.com/3940371 -- Regards, Brian
