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CouchDB on RHEL6 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)

Had to install a Couch DB instance on a fresh Red Hat Enterprise 6 Linux Box and it required some time before I got the whole thing up. Better have it documented here for future reference: 1. Get the Prerequisites First you will have to add the RPM Forge YUM Repository if not already available. Add the new repo: sudo vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmforge.repo # Name: RPMforge RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise 6 - dag # URL: http://rpmforge.net/ # (Put "x86_64" instead of "i386" if appropriate.) [rpmforge] name = Red Hat Enterprise $releasever - RPMforge.net - dag baseurl = ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/atrpms.net/el6-i386/atrpms/stable enabled = 1 protect = 0 gpgcheck = 0 Save the file and get the prerequisites: sudo yum clean all sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools' 'Development Libraries' 'GNOME Software Development' sudo yum install \   cvs zip gcc-c++ glib2-devel gtk2-devel fontconfig-devel libnotify-devel \   libIDL