January 2010
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 41m
English
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Appendix A. Installing on Unix-like Systems
Debian GNU/Linux
You can install the CouchDB package by running:
sudo aptitude install couchdb
When this completes, you should have a copy of CouchDB running on your machine. Be sure to read through the Debian-specific system documentation that can be found under /usr/share/couchdb.
Starting with Ubuntu 9.10 (“Karmic”), CouchDB comes preinstalled with every desktop system.
Ubuntu
You can install the CouchDB package by running:
sudo aptitude install couchdb
When this completes, you should have a copy of CouchDB running on your machine. Be sure to read through the Ubuntu-specific system documentation that can be found under /usr/share/couchdb.
Gentoo Linux
Enable the development ebuild of CouchDB by running:
sudo echo dev-db/couchdb >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
Check the CouchDB ebuild by running:
emerge -pv couchdb
Build and install the CouchDB ebuild by running:
sudo emerge couchdb
When this completes, you should have a copy of CouchDB running on your machine.
Problems
See Appendix D if your distribution doesn’t have a CouchDB package.
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