[Couchdb Wiki] Update of "Installing_on_RHEL5" by WendallCada

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  = Installing on RHEL 5 =
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  These instructions also work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux compatible distributions like CentOS.
  
  Note: [[https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-315|COUCHDB-315]] has an attached patch for the CouchDB README which adds instructions for RHEL 5.
  
  == Installing a prepackaged CouchDB ==
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  1. Enable the  [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL|EPEL]] repository.
  
  2. Install the couchdb package from EPEL:
@@ -15, +13 @@

  {{{
  # yum install couchdb
  }}}
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  3. Edit config file to suit:
  
  {{{
  # vi /etc/couchdb/local.ini
  }}}
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  4. Start CouchDB:
  
  {{{
  # service couchdb start
  }}}
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  5. Set it to start automatically on reboots:
  
  {{{
  # chkconfig --level 345 couchdb on
  }}}
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  == Building CouchDB from source ==
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  1. Install prerequisites. You will need to enable the [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL|EPEL]] repository for the js-devel and erlang packages (or build js and erlang from source).
  
  {{{
- yum install libicu-devel openssl-devel curl-devel make gcc erlang js-devel
+ # yum install libicu-devel openssl-devel curl-devel make gcc erlang js-devel libtool which
  }}}
+ 1.1 If installing CouchDB >= 0.11, you will need cURL>= 7.18. Currently neither [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL|EPEL]], nor [[http://iuscommunity.org/|IUS]] provide a current enough [[http://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/|libcurl]]. Visit the curl [[http://curl.haxx.se/download.html|download page]] for the most recent curl package.
  
+ {{{
+ $ wget http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.20.1.tar.gz
+ $ tar -xzf curl-7.20.1.tar.gz
+ $ cd curl-7.20.1
+ $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
+ $ make
+ $ make test
+ # make install
+ }}}
  2. Install CouchDB
  
  The configure line below is for 64-bit, adjust for your arch (or leave out --with-erlang if configure can find out for itself). You can use a release tarball instead of a checkout, in that case skip right to the ./confgure line.
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  $ make
  # make install
  }}}
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  3. Edit config file to suit
  
  {{{
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  {{{
  # adduser -r --home /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb -M --shell /bin/bash --comment "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb
  }}}
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  See the README for additional chown and chmod commands to run.
  
  5. Launch!
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  {{{
  # sudo -u couchdb couchdb
  }}}
- 
  Or as daemon:
  
  {{{
  # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start
  }}}
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  6. Run as daemon on start-up:
  
  {{{