[Couchdb Wiki] Update of "Installing_on_RHEL5" by NilsBreunese

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- Installing on RHEL5 x86_64
- 
  (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.)
  
- 1. Install prerequisites. You will need [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL|EPEL]] for js and erlang (or build those from source).
+ 
+ 
+ Installing a prepackaged CouchDB
+ 
+ 1. Enable the  [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL|EPEL]] repository.
+ 
+ 2. Install the couchdb package from EPEL:
+ 
+ # yum install couchdb
+ 
+ 3. Edit config file to suit:
  
  {{{
- yum install ncurses-devel openssl-devel icu libicu-devel js js-devel curl-devel erlang
+ vi /etc/couchdb/local.ini
  }}}
+ 4. Start it:
  
+ # service couchdb start
+ 
+ 5. Set it to start automatically:
+ 
+ # chkconfig --level 345 couchdb on
+ 
+ Building CouchDB from source
+ 
+ 1. Install prerequisites. You will need to enable the [[http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL|EPEL]] repository for the js and erlang packages (or build those from source).
+ 
+ {{{
+ yum install libicu-devel openssl-devel curl-devel make gcc erlang js-devel
+ }}}
  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.
@@ -20, +42 @@

  ./bootstrap
  ./configure --with-erlang=/usr/lib64/erlang/usr/include && make && make install
  }}}
- 
  3. Edit config file to suit
  
  {{{
  vi /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini
  }}}
- 
  4. Create user, modify ownership and permissions
  
  Create the couchdb user:
@@ -34, +54 @@

  {{{
  adduser -r --home /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb -M --shell /bin/bash --comment "CouchDB Administrator" couchdb
  }}}
- 
  See the README for additional chown and chmod commands to run.
  
- 5. Launch! In console:
+ 5. Launch!
+ 
  {{{
  sudo -u couchdb couchdb
  }}}
- or as daemon:
+ Or as daemon:
+ 
  {{{
- sudo /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start
+ # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb start
+ }}}
+ 6. Run as daemon on start-up:
+ 
+ {{{
+ # ln -s /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb
+ # chkconfig --add couchdb
  }}}
  
- 6. Run as daemon on start-up:
- {{{
- sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb
- sudo chkconfig --add couchdb
- }}}
-