Hi CouchDB Users, This morning I struggled to install CouchDB 1.6.1 on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine. It would complain about not being able to find the virtual package erlang-abi-15.b. Apparently the latest version of erlang-base (1:18.1) does not provide this package, on which couchdb-bin depends.
My solution was to downgrade erlang to version 1:17.4 by asking aptitude for a second opinion as described here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/696930/couchdb-unmet-dependencies-couchdb-bin-1-6-1-0ubuntu5-held-broken-package I don't know if this is an Erlang problem, a CouchDB problem, or an Ubuntu package management problem, but I'd appreciate it if you'd forward this email to the correct place to get it fixed. Thanks! -- Jim R. Wilson
