Installing CouchDB 2.1 on Ubuntu Server 16.04

Question

Does anyone know how to install CouchDB on Ubuntu Server 16.04?

The manual in the CouchDB docs seems to be broken and a simple apt-get install couchdbresults in Version 1.6.1.

Answer 1

This will install CouchDB 2.1:

1. Add "deb https://apache.bintray.com/couchdb-deb xenial main" to /etc/apt/sources.list using your favorite editor

2. Add the public key to apt:

   curl -L https://couchdb.apache.org/repo/bintray-pubkey.asc | sudo apt-key add -

3. Depending on your setup you may need to install https for apt

   sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

4. Update apt and install!

   sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install couchdb

Answer 2

Try the snap for CouchDB, there isn't an apt package for CouchDB 2.1 yet. http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/install/snap.html. (If this is what you already tried from the manual and it didn't work, share any error messages you received)

Answer 3

I setup CouchDB 2.1.1 on a Digital Ocean droplet, running on Ubuntu 16 (xenial), with HTTPS (using a Let's encrypt free certificate).

Rough steps where as follows,

• Initial server set-up, followed https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/initial-server-setup-with-ubuntu-14-04
• Configured a domain using the Digital Ocean WebUI
  • Added an A Name record via my DNS registers site to point to my droplet's public IP
• Configured a firewall using the Digital Ocean WebUI and associated it with my droplet
  • Enabled the following inbound ports,
    • 80 for certbot
    • 5984 CouchDB HTTP - enabled until HTTPS configured and then disabled
    • 6984 CouchDB HTTPS
• Installed CouchDB by following the oficial docs (worked for me), http://docs.couchdb.org/en/2.1.1/install/unix.html
• Generated SSL Certificate using the Let's encrypt certbot application, https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/ubuntuxenial-other
  • sudo certbot certonly (option 1 standalone)
• Setup a crontab to run certbot renew every week
  • Modified CouchDB local.ini to use the newly generated certificate (PEM files), see https://serverfault.com/questions/743452/configure-couchdb-with-lets-encrypt-ssl-certificate

I later saw the following which was close to what I did and one of the better guides available, https://www.joshmorony.com/creating-a-couchdb-database-on-an-ubuntu-server-digital-ocean/

Answer 4

You can use this script to install coushDB 2.x on Ubuntu 16.04 : https://github.com/afiskon/install-couchdb :

 mkdir temp
 cd temp
 wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/afiskon/install-couchdb/master/install-couchdb.sh
sh install-couchdb.sh
# then see http://localhost:5984/_utils/