Get couchdb
wget http://couchdb.googlecode.com/files/couchdb-0.7.2.tar.gz tar -xzvf couchdb-0.7.2.tar.gz cd couchdb-0.7.2/
sudo apt-get install automake autoconf libtool subversion-tools help2man build-essential erlang libicu38 libicu-dev libreadline5-dev checkinstall libmozjs-dev
./configure
If everything goes fine
make && sudo make install
Create user couchdb
sudo adduser couchdb
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
sudo chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
sudo chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/var/run
sudo chown -R couchdb /usr/local/var/run
Copy couchdb init script to global so that it gets started on server startup
sudo cp /usr/local/etc/init.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/
sudo update-rc.d couchdb defaults
sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb start
Start browser and hit at http://localhost:5984/_utils/index.html

