Thanks Alexander! I reported it to Ubuntu: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/erlang/+bug/1516082
-- Jim On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Alexander Shorin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > This is Ubuntu package issues. CouchDB doesn't provides by itself any > packages for Ubuntu nor maintains them. It seems that they didn't pin > suitable Erlang release for CouchDB package. > -- > ,,,^..^,,, > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jim R. Wilson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 >
