> Fair warning: I'm just a tad miffed because the instructions do not work > and they probably have not been working for more than a year!
Fair warning: I used these to build the last official release, so it’s unlikely ;-). Given the paucity of information you’ve provided it’s hard to tell exactly what went wrong, but luckily I don’t get miffed easily ;-). I’m sure with your assistance we can improve the instructions. > So, I am following the instructions from here: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/COUCHDB/Debian - What Debian release are you on? - What package versions are installed? > And it was at the "apt-get update -y" where I began to run into a slight > problem: > > W: Conflicting distribution: http://packages.cloudant.com wheezy Release > (expected wheezy but got squeeze) I’m guessing you are on > Debian 7.4 and therefore can’t use the cloudant ones. use either `lsb_release -a` or `cat /etc/debian_version` to check that. The debian 7.5+ packages are finally current with what CouchDB needs: https://gist.github.com/dch/eedbd3fe3351327650e0 so you should be able to do: `apt-get install -y libmozjs185-dev erlang-nox erlang-dev`. If you let me know what works for you we can expand the instructions. and IIRC what I used for preparing the 1.6.1 release was basically this but in a local VM: https://gist.github.com/dch/056de1a8e869000bb7fd HTH A+ Dave — sent from my Couch
