Well, I simply gave up and installed Ubuntu 14.04 - that one works out of the box. I always thought that Debian Stable was actually supposed to be just that - stable - and this dependency on internal version numbers is somehow obviously not pertinent information.
Before I tried this installation, I did indeed a "apt-get update / upgrade / dist-upgrade" and thusly assumed that all my packages were up-to-date. Seems I have been mistaken. If I sound frustrated it's because I'm running into these kind of problems again and again and again. Here it's a dependency that's unresolved a mere month after the installation guide is written. There it's an untested feature that's advertised nontheless. And over there is a version dependency you're not told about. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 6:46 PM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > >
