Installing on Fedora Core 7 i386

  1. install erlang

    yum install erlang

  2. install other dependencies (no external repos required).

    yum install icu libicu-devel js js-devel

  3. install couchdb

    svn checkout http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb/trunk couchdb cd couchdb ./bootstrap ./configure make && make install

  4. create couchdb user

    sudo adduser -r -d /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb couchdb sudo chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb sudo chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb

  5. (optional) edit basic settings like Port and !BindAddress

    vim /usr/local/etc/couchdb/couch.ini

  6. start CouchDB server in your terminal

    sudo -u couchdb couchdb

or as daemon

sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start

Access http://localhost:5984/_utils/index.html or http://hostname:5984/_utils/index.html if you edited the !BindAddress