Installation on Linux

Certain Linux platforms either include CouchDB or provide a package as part of its native package management system.

On Ubuntu and Debian you can use:

sudo aptitude install couchdb

On Gentoo Linux there is a CouchDB ebuild available:

sudo emerge couchdb

In all cases, the installation should install and automatically start CouchDB for you. If not, you can always start or stop using the init scripts. For example:

/etc/init.d/couchdb start