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Install and run on RPM based Linux Distributions ( Archived )
(Installing Ruby from source because 1.8.7 isn’t available from the package manager on CentOS)
When installing on your local machines for development purposes, it might be easier to install pre-compiled binaries for Ruby and CouchDB, for instance.
(CentOS box, so had to do a sudo yum install gcc)
Also had to pull down the zlib and openssl development headers for Ruby gems to work properly, sudo yum install zlib-devel openssl openssl-devel
curl ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8/ruby-1.8.7-p174.tar.gz > ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz
tar xzf ruby-1.8.7.tar.gz
cd ruby-1.8.7-p174
./configure
ruby ext/openssl/extconf.rb
make
sudo make install
Do a ruby -v to make sure that the 1.8.7 version is being picked up.
wget http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/60718/rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
tar xzf rubygems-1.3.5.tgz
cd rubygems-1.3.5
ruby setup.rb
sudo gem install rails -v '2.3.5' (Check syntax….)
Also install the json, rspec and cucumber gems
sudo gem install json rspec cucumber
Install the prerequisites (hmm, there are a lot of these!). Hopefully this will be easier on other systems.
After some Googling on ‘CentOS couchdb install’ I found I needed the following
sudo yum install ncurses-devel openssl-devel icu libicu-devel js js-devel curl-devel erlang erlang-devel libtool
cd src
wget http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/couchdb/0.10.1/apache-couchdb-0.10.1.tar.gz
tar xzf apache-couchdb-0.10.1.tar.gz
./configure --with-erlang=/usr/lib64/erlang/usr/include # The path will most likely be different on a non-CentOS machine
make
sudo make install
Because we’re running on UNIX we’ll want to set up a separate user account for running couchdb:
sudo adduser -r -d /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb couchdb
chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
chown-R couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
chown-R couchdb /usr/local/var/run/couchdb
Now we should be able to start it as a Daemon:
sudo/usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start
CouchDB should now be running on http://localhost:5984
You should also be able to see the built-in database admin tool, Futon, on http://localhost:5984/_utils/