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CouchDB

Got interested one of Apache projects called CouchDB (http://couchdb.apache.org).

Looked at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu, and installing on Ubuntu8.10 is just

$ sudo apt-get install couchdb

To start,

$ sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb start

$ sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb status

returns

Apache CouchDB is running as process 4455. Time to relax.

Accessing http://localhost:4455/ gives me an error. Following http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu, accessed http://localhost:5984/ gives me

{"couchdb":"Welcome","version":"0.8.0-incubating"}

on a browser. Well, /etc/couchdb/couch.ini shows the port 5984. Should've looked at.

OK, what's next? Going back to FrontPage of the wiki, and hit Basics. Among the listed languages, choose Getting started with Python. It tells me to install couch-python, but on Ubuntu8.10, all i need is to do

$ sudo apt-get install python-couchdb

python-httplib2 and python-simplejson are installed as well.

python-couchdb installed was version 0.3, and didn't run some examples i ran. Uninstalled it and did

$ easy_install couchdb

which installed versio 0.5 at

/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/CouchDB-0.5-py2.5.egg

Following http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/jp/web/library/j_wa-couchdb/, installed couchdb0.8.1 after unistalling 0.8.0 as

$ tar zxvf apache-couchdb-0.8.0-incubating.tar.gz
$ cd apache-couchdb-0.8.0-incubating
$ ./configure

At the end on terminal, there were comments checking for JS_NewContext in -ljs... no

checking for JS_NewContext in -lmozjs... no
configure: error: Could not find the js library.
Is the Mozilla SpiderMonkey library installed?

Guess i need to install js library... Installed spidermonkey and libmozjs0d, and ran ./confiture... failed again. Well, i don't know what's missing, but installed the following applications which i skipped

sudo apt-get install build-essentials
sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo apt-get install automake
sudo apt-get install libmozjs-dev
sudo apt-get install libicu-dev
sudo apt-get install erlang

Over 100MB downloaded. Ran ./configure again, and got the last line

You have configured Apache CouchDB. Time to relax.

Ran

$ make
$ make install

Check

$ couchdb -V
couchdb - Apache CouchDB 0.8.1-incubating

OK.

Ran couchdb as

$ couchdb -b
Apache CouchDB has started. Time to relax.
$ couchdb -s
Apache CouchDB is running as process 21959. Time to relax.

The couchdb-python example using Javascript functions now works