Successfully test on: Ubuntu 16.04 Ubuntu 14.04 Debian 8.6 Sphinx update did the trick for Ubuntu, was also necessary for Debian. All 3 of my tests were on fresh VPS installs.
On Tue, Aug 1, 2017 at 5:09 PM, Joan Touzet <woh...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi Pink, > > Sounds like you have an outdated version of the sphinx_rtd_theme > and possibly Sphinx. > > Try running `sudo pip install -U Sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme` and > try running the docs build again. > > -Joan > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pink and Dangerous to Know Mad" <p...@mad.pink> > To: dev@couchdb.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, 1 August, 2017 5:05:02 PM > Subject: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache CouchDB 2.1.0-RC1 > > problem installing on Ubuntu 16.04 > > > used the following steps: > > sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends -y install \ > build-essential pkg-config erlang erlang-reltool \ > libicu-dev libmozjs185-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev > > curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash - > sudo apt-get install -y nodejs > > sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends -y install \ > python-sphinx > > ./configure > > make release > > > error when things fell apart: > > make[1]: Entering directory '/root/zzz/couchdb/src/docs' > sphinx-build -b html -a -W -n -A local=1 -D latex_elements.papersize=a4 -d > build/doctree src/ build/html > Running Sphinx v1.3.6 > making output directory... > loading pickled environment... not yet created > building [mo]: all of 0 po files > building [html]: all source files > updating environment: 112 added, 0 changed, 0 removed > reading sources... [100%] whatsnew/index > looking for now-outdated files... none found > pickling environment... done > checking consistency... done > preparing documents... > Theme error: > unsupported theme option 'canonical_url' given > Makefile:32: recipe for target 'html' failed > make[1]: *** [html] Error 1 > make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/zzz/couchdb/src/docs' > Makefile:377: recipe for target 'src/docs/build' failed > make: *** [src/docs/build] Error 2 > > Full results of Makefile: > https://gist.github.com/madpink/e8db66cc4357bd76d6426cf12d976742 >