Hi there! new post that will guide you how to install couchdb on aws step by step

Core deps and dev tools.

1. Enable the epel and epel-source repos by editing the file /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo.
2. Next install the deps and tools.

   sudo yum install gcc gcc-c++ libtool libicu-devel openssl-devel autoconf-archive erlang python27 python-sphinx help2man
   

Get the SpiderMonkey JS Engine and build it.

wget http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz
tar xvfz js185-1.0.0.tar.gz
cd js-1.8.5/js/src
./configure
make
sudo make install

You should see it installed under /usr/local/lib

Build CouchDB.

1. Download the source package for CouchDB, unpack it and cd in. (https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua?path=/couchdb/source/1.6.1/apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz)
2. Point it to the required libs and configure.

   ./configure --with-erlang=/usr/lib64/erlang/usr/include --with-js-lib=/usr/local/lib/ --with-js-include=/usr/local/include/js/
   

   make
sudo make install

Prepare the CouchDB installation.

1. Make a couchdb user.

   sudo useradd -r -d /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb -M -s /bin/bash couchdb
   

2. Set the file ownerships.

   sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/etc/couchdb
   sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
   sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
   sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/var/run/couchdb
   sudo chmod 0775 /usr/local/etc/couchdb
   sudo chmod 0775 /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb
   sudo chmod 0775 /usr/local/var/log/couchdb
   sudo chmod 0775 /usr/local/var/run/couchdb
   

Prepare the init scripts.

1. Link the init script and copy the log rotate script to /etc.

   sudo cp /usr/local/etc/logrotate.d/couchdb /etc/logrotate.d
   sudo ln -s /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb
   

2. This and most other linux distros don’t include /usr/local/lib in ld, so CouchDB will have problems finding the SpiderMonkey libs we installed there earlier. One way to solve this is to add the following line near the top of the /etc/init.d/couchdb startup script.

   export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib
   

   See man page for ldconfig for more info and tweet back with a better solution.

3. You may want to edit /usr/local/etc/default/couchdb to turn off the auto respawn.
4. To get it to autostart, just use the standard linux setup tools for running service scripts.

   sudo chkconfig --add couchdb
   

   It should pick up the default run levels needed from the script, but in case it doesn’t, you can do it manually like this…

   sudo chkconfig --level 3 couchdb on
   sudo chkconfig --level 4 couchdb on
   sudo chkconfig --level 5 couchdb on
   

   You can sudo chkconfig --list to confirm its there. See man chkconfig for more details.

Relax.

Finally reboot (or just start couchdb from the script) and confirm its running with curl http://localhost:5984/