Building snaps

Prerequisites

CouchDB requires Ubuntu 16.04. If building on 18.04, then LXD might be useful.

1. lxc launch ubuntu:16.04 couchdb-pkg

2. lxc exec couchdb-pkg bash

3. sudo apt update

4. sudo apt install snapd snapcraft

5. git clone https://github.com/couchdb/couchdb-pkg.git

6. cd couchdb-pkg

How to do it

1. Edit snap/snapcraft.yaml to point to the correct tag (e.g. 2.2.0)
2. snapcraft

Instalation

You may need to pull the LXD file to the host system.

$ lxc file pull couchdb-pkg/root/couchdb-pkg/couchdb_2.2.0_amd64.snap /tmp/couchdb_2.2.0_amd64.snap

The self crafted snap will need to be installed in devmode

$ sudo snap install /tmp/couchdb_2.2.0_amd64.snap --devmode