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Having installed couchdb and geocouch the time was right to install couchapp!
First, I had to install node.js. I cloned from github into /usr/local/src:
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
Then entered the node directory and checked out a version that would install with make:
cd node git checkout v0.6.3
I then configured and installed. I installed into /usr/local:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local make sudo checkinstall
This installed node.js files throughout a number of the existing directories in the /usr/local directory.
Second was to install npm. I cloned from github into /usr/local/src:
git clone https://github.com/isaacs/npm.git
then entered the npm directory and installed:
cd npm sudo make install
npm files were installed within directories of the /usr/local directory.
Couchapp was installed globally:
sudo npm install couchapp -g
Installing to:
/usr/local/bin/couchapp /usr/local/lib/node_modules/couchapp
I received this error:
The "sys" module is now called "util". It should have a similar interface
This was fixed by modifying 2 files:
./lib/node_modules/couchapp/main.js ./lib/node_modules/couchapp/node_modules/watch/main.js
By changing
sys=require('sys')
to
sys=require('util')
in both files.
I received this error when running couchapp to push for the first time:
Error: Cannot find module 'couchapp'
This was fixed by setting the following environment variable:
export NODE_PATH=/usr/local/lib/node_modules
Which I’ve also saved into the /etc/environment file.
Euroside 