Installing CouchDB 1.2 on CentOS 6
CouchDB has a really great idea behind it. Whether or not CouchDB delivers on it, I've been wanting to discover for a while. Only way to do that is kick the tires, so I started the process of figuring out how to install it. First disappointment is discovering a general lack of documentation. But my first appreciation is how simple it is once you figure out what needs to be done. CouchDB runs on erlang, so you need to install erlang from the EPEL repository. In order to use that repository on CentOS 6, run the following command: sudo rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm Now you can install erlang: sudo yum install erlang That will bring with it a number of dependencies, such as wxWidgets. With erlang now available, it's time to download the CouchDB source code from here . As of this writing, the latest release is 1.2.0, although 1.3 is in alpha in master. I'm electing to use the stable release. Now that you