CouchDB v1.0.2.on Ubuntu 10.10

1. Get Spidermonkey from (http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js-1.8.0-rc1.tar.gz)
2. Compile and setup Spidermonkey

cd js/src 

make BUILD_OPT=1 -f Makefile.ref

make BUILD_OPT=1 JS_DIST=/opt/app/spidermonkey180rc1 -f Makefile.ref export 

3. Install the packages from ubuntu archives

apt-get install   build-essential erlang libicu-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

4. Compile CouchDB

./configure --prefix=/install/couchdb --with-js-lib=/opt/app/spidermonkey180rc1/lib64 --with-js-include=/opt/app/spidermonkey180rc1/include 
make 
make install

5. Start CouchDB

/install/couchdb/etc/init.d/couchdb start

Note: If you don't want to run the couchdb server as user couchdb then change the config file located at /install/couchdb/etc/default/couchdb. Edit the COUCHDB_USER field and specify the user it should run with.

If you want to change the port on which FUTON/CouchDB's web UI runs then edit the file /install/couchdb/etc/couchdb/default.ini. Set the port value under [httpd] to the new value that you want.

6. Run couchdb 

/install/couchdb/etc/init.d/couchdb start