HOWTO install couchdb 0.11.0 on Ubuntu Lucid from source
Only 0.10.0 available in ubuntu package, but I want 0.11.0. Here goes…
Get couchdb tarball from apache couchdb website.
sudo apt-get install xulrunner-dev libicu-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev erlang-dev help2man
You need xulrunner-dev as a replacement for the Mozilla spidermonkey which used to conflict with Mozilla and is not available in Lucid.
Then follow the rest of the instructions at http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu (look for the section called “Ubuntu 10.04”)