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I'm migrating my new Twarfing code from home to a new server at work which involves installing CouchDB. Now, CentOS has no aspirations to be cutting-edge, so it doesn't have CouchDB in it's repository. You need to jump through some hoops to get it installed. There were good instructions on Port:EightyEight, but these turned out to be a bit out of date. This is what worked for me:
First you need the EPEL repository. I was using a 64bit system, so I did:
But you might need the i386 version. If all goes well, you should see something like:
Next I needed the basic prerequisites for CouchDB:
Now, this is a bit different than Port:EightyEight described it: the erlang-devel package was not available anymore via EPEL, but this turned out not to be a problem. However, CentOS did ask me to reboot at this point for whatever reason.
After the reboot, it turned out that all I needed was:
and CouchDB installed without needing the erlang-lang package. Also, it wasn't necessary to install from source either. The version of CouchDB I got was 0.10.0-1.el5 which is current as of writing if you really want to know.
The local.ini file will be in a different directory if installed this way:
I left that the way it was for now. Let's see if something else needs to be done. The Installing_on_RHEL5 wiki page seems to be the most relevant page to a CentOS installation. In it a user is created, but yum did this already and it looks just about right:
And starting it certainly worked with:
And
also worked. Connecting to the web interface worked once the cluster firewall was tunneled through.
Now for testing!
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I'm migrating my new Twarfing code from home to a new server at work which involves installing CouchDB. Now, CentOS has no aspirations to be cutting-edge, so it doesn't have CouchDB in it's repository. You need to jump through some hoops to get it installed. There were good instructions on Port:EightyEight, but these turned out to be a bit out of date. This is what worked for me:
First you need the EPEL repository. I was using a 64bit system, so I did:
sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm
But you might need the i386 version. If all goes well, you should see something like:
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:epel-release ########################################### [100%]
Next I needed the basic prerequisites for CouchDB:
yum install ncurses-devel openssl-devel icu libicu-devel js js-devel curl-devel erlang libtool
Now, this is a bit different than Port:EightyEight described it: the erlang-devel package was not available anymore via EPEL, but this turned out not to be a problem. However, CentOS did ask me to reboot at this point for whatever reason.
After the reboot, it turned out that all I needed was:
sudo yum install couchdb
and CouchDB installed without needing the erlang-lang package. Also, it wasn't necessary to install from source either. The version of CouchDB I got was 0.10.0-1.el5 which is current as of writing if you really want to know.
The local.ini file will be in a different directory if installed this way:
/etc/couchdb/local.ini
I left that the way it was for now. Let's see if something else needs to be done. The Installing_on_RHEL5 wiki page seems to be the most relevant page to a CentOS installation. In it a user is created, but yum did this already and it looks just about right:
couchdb:x:101:104:Couchdb Database Server:/var/lib/couchdb:/bin/bash
And starting it certainly worked with:
sudo -i -u couchdb couchdb -b
And
sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb start
also worked. Connecting to the web interface worked once the cluster firewall was tunneled through.
Now for testing!