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In this chapter, you will learn how to install the CouchDB database on Mac OS X. There are several ways of installing CouchDB on the Mac. An unofficial “one-click” package, CouchDBX, is available and provides an easy-to-use way of trying CouchDB, if you don’t like to get your hands dirty. I will talk about this in more detail later in this chapter. At the other end of the spectrum is the option to build CouchDB directly from source code. This is quite complicated and is recommended only to power users who want the highest level of flexibility with their CouchDB installation. Thankfully, there’s a happy medium that offers relative simplicity in terms of installation while allowing you a high level of control in the configuration of your CouchDB setup. This method is what I refer to as the “MacPorts” method.
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Lennon, J. (2009). Installing CouchDB on Mac OS X. In: Beginning CouchDB. Apress. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-7236-6_3
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