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Asked: 2011-01-13 01:02:51 +0800 CST

How to remove all Couchdb versions in Ubuntu 10.04 (server)? ( after multiple installs )

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I have done multiple installs of CouchDB using sudo aptitude install couchdb sudo ap-get install couchdb

and more recently based on the instructions found at L http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Installing_on_Ubuntu

May I know how do I uninstall or remove all the above installations?

Best Regards. +++++++++++++++++++UPDATE++++++++++++++++++++++++

I've tried running the following commands:

apt-get remove couchdb
apt-get purge couchdb

but received the following errors:

(Reading database ... 39814 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing couchdb ...
invoke-rc.d: initscript couchdb, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing couchdb (--remove):
 subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
invoke-rc.d: initscript couchdb, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 couchdb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

May I know how do i fix this?

ON issuing the command : dpkg -l | grep couchdb I received the following response:

rF  couchdb                          0.10.0-1ubuntu2                            RESTful document oriented database, system D
iF  couchdb-bin                      0.10.0-1ubuntu2                            RESTful document oriented database, programs

How do i uninstall CouchDB ? I think there's some file corruption?

ubuntu couchdb

5 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Everything you install with apt-get aptitude or dpkg can be uninstalled using the same tool.

    As The NinjaSysadmin pointed before use apt-get remove couchdb to uninstall

    You can also use apt-get purge couchdb to remove config and other files.

    To see if you have couchdb installed search for it using dpkg -l | grep couchdb

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  2. You should stop couchdb before remove it : $ sudo /etc/init.d/couchdb stop Then $ sudo apt-get remove couchdb $ sudo apt-get purge couchdb

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  3. I was searching on how to completely uninstall couchdb 0.1 provided with Ubuntu in order to develop on Latest Couchbase releases.

    You need to apt-get remove couchdb-bin

    Found the answer in this mail archive:

    http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-user/201008.mbox/%3C20100807021919.GH6131@orbital%3E

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  4. You can use

    sudo apt-get remove couchdb

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  5. Anyone have a different answer? From what I gather, the couchdb 0.1 instance is used by the O/S itself. I am also trying to remove this, but can't. Is there a way to upgrade it to 1.0.1 at least?

    FYI I've already tried to sudo apt-get remove as well as upgrade.

    UPDATE

    I managed to run 1.0.1 side-by side with the internal 0.10 version. It was long and complex and I didn't really know what I was doing, but the basic steps are as follows:

    • sudo apt-get remove couchdb
    • Download the .bin to some folder and extract/install (I followed this article - installing from source)
    • Chmod and chown as in that article
    • You also need to do the same to the .delete folder in installFolder/var/lib/couchdb
    • Change the port number in the local.ini file to something else
    • While you're in there, add a couchdb user
    • assign that new user to the couchdb group

    Restart couchdb and you should now have 1.0.1 running on a new port as 0.10

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