Comments on How to Install Apache CouchDB on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

You are defining xenial here: 'echo "deb https://apache.bintray.com/couchdb-deb xenial main" \ | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list' But the title is how to install CDB for Ubuntu 18.04, so should be bionic?

Yes, as of July 11 official bionic sources are available. Just replace xenial with bionic in the above and you should be good to go. If you have already added the xenial sources you'll need to remove the entry otherwise it will look there first. I had errors with dependencies using the xenial sources.

curl -L https://couchdb.apache.org/repo/bintray-pubkey.asc \ | sudo apt-key add -

Results in

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current

                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed

100  3100  100  3100    0     0   1994      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  1993

curl: (3) Host name ' ' contains bad letter

then

sudo apt-get install couchdb -y

results in

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree       

Reading state information... Done

Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have

requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable

distribution that some required packages have not yet been created

or been moved out of Incoming.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

 couchdb : Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2) but it is not going to be installed

           Depends: libicu55 (>= 55.1-1~) but it is not installable

           Recommends: python-progressbar but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Hi, just an update to let you know that I've found some official bionic sources. So you can use the same commands above, replacing xenial with bionic and you should be good to go. However if you've already added the xenial source you'll need to remove it first.

Still don't understand this Scott. Your last post is generating the same libcurl3 error that I am getting, even after the Xenial fix to sources. I can't understand why couchdb is so difficult to install....

@Edwin : I faced the same issue as yours. After adding 'deb https://apache.bintray.com/couchdb-deb bionic main' to the sources list, make sure you deleted the previously added entry for 'xenial'. It works fine.

How did you remove it?

you can edit your sources list using nano sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list navigate to the bottom where you added the xenial package and change thet word xenial to bionic