Installing CouchDB on Mac OS X

When I first started checking out CouchDB a couple of months ago, I installed CouchDB via Mac Ports. Everything was working fine, until I decided to try and upgrade couchdb via ports:

sudo port upgrade couchdb

Next thing I knew, Erlang was upgraded to a version that was no longer compatible with CouchDB. So, I tried several different ways to get my old Erlang version back, but with little success. I then decided to try and install all the required packages by hand. I tried a couple of different blog posts, but the one that work for me was:

http://devoh.com/posts/2009/03/couchdb-leopard

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