Here are the instructions I put together while setting up CouchDB-Lucene on OS X. You should be able to follow these instructions verbatim on a standard OS X 10.5 install, and I think on 10.4 as well. Installation on a Linux system will be generally the same, but the specifics will vary. Windows doesn't have a prayer. Oh. Here is a good time to mention the pages for the loveable Schemaless databas
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