simple environment setup

[stevesong]

Hi,

I'm embarrassed to say that I got stuck on the first line of the installation instructions

CouchDB server 1.3 (or newer) with the GeoCouch plugin.

Is there a simple way to install CouchDB with the GeoCouch plugin on Ubuntu? I've successfully compiled CouchDB 1.6 from scratch but attempts to pull the latest GeoCouch repo and compile generates errors and fixing one only seems to reveal others. Am I doing something wrong? Should I be using an earlier version of CouchDB?

[andrenarchy]

Hey @stevesong, the installation of CouchDB with GeoCouch is a bit cumbersome. You can checkout this blog post for Ubuntu 13.04. I haven't checked if it's still valid for more recent Ubuntu versions.

I'd love to have a docker container for the combination of CouchDB and GeoCouch. Until now I haven't had the time for that. This would facilitate the whole process a lot.

Once you succeeded installing CouchDB+GeoCouch, the remaining installation steps should be very easy.