looks like you skipped this step: http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/install/unix.html#enabling-the-apache-couchdb-package-repository
Best Jan — > On 16. May 2019, at 15:39, Rene Veerman <seductivea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ubuntu 18.04, installed, updated, then : > > root@albatross:~# curl -L https://couchdb.apache.org/repo/bintray-pubkey.asc > | sudo apt-key add - > % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time > Current > Dload Upload Total Spent Left > Speed > 100 3100 100 3100 0 0 20129 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- > 20129 > OK > root@albatross:~# sudo apt update > Hit:1 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease > Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease > Hit:3 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease > Hit:4 http://nl.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > All packages are up to date. > > root@albatross:~# apt install couchdb > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Package couchdb is not available, but is referred to by another package. > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or > is only available from another source > > E: Package 'couchdb' has no installation candidate > > ------------------------------ > i wonder whatś going on here.. -- Professional Support for Apache CouchDB: https://neighbourhood.ie/couchdb-support/