Install CouchDB 2.1 on Ubuntu/Debian

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nano curl apt-transport-https runit -y
sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list 
### add the line:  
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deb https://apache.bintray.com/couchdb-deb xenial main
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curl -L https://couchdb.apache.org/repo/bintray-pubkey.asc | sudo apt-key add -

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install couchdb -y

sudo mkdir /etc/sv/couchdb && sudo mkdir /etc/sv/couchdb/log
sudo nano /etc/sv/couchdb/log/run
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#!/bin/sh
exec svlogd -tt /var/log/couchdb
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sudo nano /etc/sv/couchdb/run
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#!/bin/sh
export HOME=/home/couchdb
exec 2>&1
exec chpst -u couchdb /opt/couchdb/bin/couchdb
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sudo chmod u+x /etc/sv/couchdb/log/run && sudo chmod u+x /etc/sv/couchdb/run
sudo ln -s /etc/sv/couchdb/ /etc/service/couchdb