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Posted to user@couchdb.apache.org by "Jim R. Wilson" <wi...@gmail.com> on 2015/11/13 12:23:36 UTC

Installing CouchDB 1.6.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 - problem with erlang-abi-15.b

Hi CouchDB Users,

This morning I struggled to install CouchDB 1.6.1 on my Ubuntu 14.04
machine. It would complain about not being able to find the virtual package
erlang-abi-15.b. Apparently the latest version of erlang-base (1:18.1) does
not provide this package, on which couchdb-bin depends.

My solution was to downgrade erlang to version 1:17.4 by asking aptitude
for a second opinion as described here:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/696930/couchdb-unmet-dependencies-couchdb-bin-1-6-1-0ubuntu5-held-broken-package

I don't know if this is an Erlang problem, a CouchDB problem, or an Ubuntu
package management problem, but I'd appreciate it if you'd forward this
email to the correct place to get it fixed. Thanks!

-- Jim R. Wilson

Re: Installing CouchDB 1.6.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 - problem with erlang-abi-15.b

Posted by "Jim R. Wilson" <wi...@gmail.com>.

Thanks Alexander! I reported it to Ubuntu:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/erlang/+bug/1516082

-- Jim

On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 6:58 AM, Alexander Shorin <kx...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is Ubuntu package issues. CouchDB doesn't provides by itself any
> packages for Ubuntu nor maintains them. It seems that they didn't pin
> suitable Erlang release for CouchDB package.
> --
> ,,,^..^,,,
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jim R. Wilson <wi...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi CouchDB Users,
> >
> > This morning I struggled to install CouchDB 1.6.1 on my Ubuntu 14.04
> > machine. It would complain about not being able to find the virtual
> package
> > erlang-abi-15.b. Apparently the latest version of erlang-base (1:18.1)
> does
> > not provide this package, on which couchdb-bin depends.
> >
> > My solution was to downgrade erlang to version 1:17.4 by asking aptitude
> > for a second opinion as described here:
> >
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/696930/couchdb-unmet-dependencies-couchdb-bin-1-6-1-0ubuntu5-held-broken-package
> >
> > I don't know if this is an Erlang problem, a CouchDB problem, or an
> Ubuntu
> > package management problem, but I'd appreciate it if you'd forward this
> > email to the correct place to get it fixed. Thanks!
> >
> > -- Jim R. Wilson
>

Re: Installing CouchDB 1.6.1 on Ubuntu 14.04 - problem with erlang-abi-15.b

Posted by Alexander Shorin <kx...@gmail.com>.

Hi,

This is Ubuntu package issues. CouchDB doesn't provides by itself any
packages for Ubuntu nor maintains them. It seems that they didn't pin
suitable Erlang release for CouchDB package.
--
,,,^..^,,,


On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jim R. Wilson <wi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi CouchDB Users,
>
> This morning I struggled to install CouchDB 1.6.1 on my Ubuntu 14.04
> machine. It would complain about not being able to find the virtual package
> erlang-abi-15.b. Apparently the latest version of erlang-base (1:18.1) does
> not provide this package, on which couchdb-bin depends.
>
> My solution was to downgrade erlang to version 1:17.4 by asking aptitude
> for a second opinion as described here:
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/696930/couchdb-unmet-dependencies-couchdb-bin-1-6-1-0ubuntu5-held-broken-package
>
> I don't know if this is an Erlang problem, a CouchDB problem, or an Ubuntu
> package management problem, but I'd appreciate it if you'd forward this
> email to the correct place to get it fixed. Thanks!
>
> -- Jim R. Wilson