Click the “Dash Home” icon in the upper left hand corner of the screen, just below “Ubuntu Desktop” and type “Terminal”. Click the Terminal icon when it appears.
In Terminal’s window, type in the following commands:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:couchdb/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install couchdb couchdb-bin couchdb-common -f
To navigate to where CouchDB database files are stored:
cd /var/lib/CouchDB
Extras
sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb /home/adam/Desktop/couchdb
sudo chown -R adam:adam /home/adam/Desktop/couchdb
sudo chown -R adam:adam /var/lib/couchdb
To get Debian version from command line:
cat /etc/debian_version