Install on Debian

svn co https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/couchdb/trunk couchdb
cd couchdb

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var
sudo checkinstall
# fix version number

sudo dpkg -i couchdb_0.9.0a681779-1_i386.deb

sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb start