Installing CouchDB/CouchApp on 64 Bit Debian 5.x

So the manual installation for CouchApp is mostly correct, but here were some slight modifications.

NOTE: my installation assumed everything that was custom-compiled went into /opt to keep a clean segregation of anything that is part of the distribution vs. hand compiled.

1. Install erlang from source (V5.7.4). I removed the 5-6 erlang packages but still got the dependencies. I also had to add libncurses5-dev to the list of packages for Erlang to compile.

./configure --with-ssl --prefix=/opt

2. Of course now I had to use the following when building CouchDB:

./configure --prefix=/opt --with-erlang=/opt/lib/erlang/usr/include/

3. Adjust paths accordingly to /opt/var/lib/couchdb /opt/var/log/couchdb etc.

NOTE: This VZ was running on 64bit OpenVZ

Linux debian5amd64-50 2.6.26-2-openvz-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 01:40:09 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux