Trying to find a CentOS RPM for Couchdb? Relax... I've got you covered!
You must install Erlang in order to run CouchDB. Here's a simple way to import their repo:
wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
The rpm folder holds all the built RPMs for CentOS 6.
rpm ---
|- couchdb-1.6.1-0.el6.x86_64.rpm
|- couchdb-2.0.0-0.el6.x86_64.rpm
Install the CouchDB version you downloaded:
yum install ./couchdb-X.X.X-0.el6.x86_64.rpm
The home directory for CouchDB is /opt/couchdb. The configuration files for couchdb are under directory /opt/couchdb/etc.
Use the service command to start/stop/restart the service:
service couchdb {start|force-start|stop|force-start|force-stop|status|restart}
The logs are located under the /opt/couchdb/var/log/couchdb directory.
The logs are located under the /var/log directory. There are two logs, stderr and stdout.
After configuring and starting the CouchDB service, you should be able to view the Web UI by visiting the IP of your CouchDB on a web browser:
http://[CouchDB-IP]:5984/_utils
You can verify the CouchDB installation by clicking on the "Verify Installation" link (on 1.6.1) or by clicking on the the "Verify" button (on 2.0.0).
The build environment can be on CentOS 6 or Mac. Before you begin, you'll need to download and install NodeJS:
https://nodejs.org/en/download/
Make sure grunt & grunt-cli are installed globally:
npm install grunt grunt-cli -g
Change to the el6-couchdb-rpm-creator root directory install dependencies for NodeJS.
cd /this/project/directory/el6-couchdb-rpm-creator
Install Node packages:
npm install
RPM Development tools are required to build the RPM:
sudo yum install rpmdevtools
You must install Erlang in order to build CouchDB. Here's a simple way to import their repo:
wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Install esl-erlang version that couchdb supports:
yum install esl-erlang-[version]
Note: Installation can be done from source on Mac OSX either manually or with Homebrew. See these notes regarding installation with Homebrew.
Add any new versions of CouchDB and it's dependencies to the build_versions folder. The build_versions folder is separated by each version of CouchDB.
Add the new CouchDB version and the libs that need to be built under the build_versions/x.x.x/libs folder. Also add the init script under the init.d folder.
Then you'll need to create a new build.sh file for the build process. Here's an example build file:
#!/bin/bash
DIR=$(pwd)
LIBS="$DIR/build_versions/2.0.0/libs"
BUILD="$DIR/build"
# BUILD_DEPS="esl-erlang-19.2 wget autoconf autoconf-archive automake ncurses-devel curl-devel help2man libicu-devel libtool perl-Test-Harness openssl-devel"
FILE_EXT=".tar.gz"
COUCHDB_FILE="apache-couchdb-2.0.0"
COUCHDB_URL="$LIBS/$COUCHDB_FILE$FILE_EXT"
SPIDER_FILE="js185-1.0.0"
SPIDER_URL="$LIBS/$SPIDER_FILE$FILE_EXT"
# Add erlang repo
wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -Uvh erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rm erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
yum clean all
yum groupinstall -y "Development Tools"
yum install -y esl-erlang-19.2 wget autoconf autoconf-archive automake ncurses-devel curl-devel help2man libicu-devel libtool perl-Test-Harness openssl-devel
mkdir -p $BUILD
tar -xvf $LIBS/$SPIDER_FILE$FILE_EXT -C $BUILD
tar -xvf $LIBS/$COUCHDB_FILE$FILE_EXT -C $BUILD
cd $BUILD/js-1.8.5/js/src
./configure
make
cd $BUILD/$COUCHDB_FILE
./configure
make release
Then create a gruntScript.js file for the RPM build process. Here's an example of how that should look:
module.exports = {
// When RPM installs on target machine, these scripts are ran
installScripts: {
preInstallScript: [],
postInstallScript: [
"groupadd 'CouchDB-Administrator'",
"adduser --system --no-create-home --shell /bin/bash --group 'CouchDB-Administrator' couchdb",
"chown -R couchdb:couchdb /opt/couchdb",
"chmod 0644 /opt/couchdb/etc/*"
],
preUninstallScript: [],
postUninstallScript: []
},
// An array of packages that this package depends
// ** Include esl-erlang version here **
requires: ['esl-erlang >= 19.2'],
// When the RPM build process occurs, these files are added to the RPM
// see https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-easy-rpm for more info
releaseFiles: [{
cwd: "build/apache-couchdb-2.0.0/rel/couchdb",
src: "**/*",
dest: "/opt/couchdb"
}, {
cwd: "build/js-1.8.5/js/src/dist",
src: "**/*",
dest: "/usr/local"
}, {
cwd: "build_versions/2.0.0/init.d",
src: "couchdb",
dest: "/etc/init.d",
mode: "755"
}],
// This is the script that is ran to build Couch and it's dependencies
buildCmd: './build_versions/2.0.0/build.sh'
};
Build the latest CouchDB version (2.0.0):
grunt build
Or build a specific version:
grunt build --target=[build_version]
If you want to contribute in any way, just send a pull request and I'll review. Thanks!