Directions on getting everything needed for running couchdb and the sample sofa blog.

couch.sh

# Install couchDB
sudo apt-get install couchdb

# If using Ubuntu < 11 you need a more recent version of couchdb (+1.0)
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntuone/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

# Method A: Install using python
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
sudo easy_install -U couchapp

# Method B: Install Ubuntu PPA
sudo add-apt-repository  ppa:couchapp/couchapp
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install couchapp

# Create a new admin user
curl -X PUT http://127.0.0.1:5984/_config/admins/admin -d '"secret"'

# Install sofa
git clone git://github.com/jchris/sofa.git
cd sofa
couchapp push . http://user:[email protected]:5984/myblogdb