Script for installing CouchDB 1.6 on Debian 8

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apt-get install -y erlang-nox erlang-dev
apt-get install -y libnspr4 libnspr4-0d libnspr4-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev curl libicu-dev
apt-get install -y libmozjs185-1.0 libmozjs185-dev

wget ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.apache.org/couchdb/source/1.6.1/apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz
tar xzf apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz
cd apache-couchdb-1.6.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-js-lib=/usr/lib --with-js-include=/usr/include/mozjs --enable-init
make
make install

useradd -d /var/lib/couchdb couchdb
mkdir -p /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb /var/lib/couchdb
chmod -R g+rw /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb
chown -R couchdb:couchdb /usr/local/{lib,etc}/couchdb /usr/local/var/{lib,log,run}/couchdb

ln -s /usr/local/etc/init.d/couchdb /etc/init.d/couchdb
/etc/init.d/couchdb start
update-rc.d couchdb defaults

Assumes that GNU Make, GCC and other build tools are already present. Run as root or sudo the lines requiring elevation.