Installing on Windows

Note: windows support is in active development, if you are interested in helping or testing please see the github issue.

Install CouchDB

Kanso requires >= CouchDB 1.1.x.

Download a Windows Installer package from Dave Cottlehuber’s repository on Github: https://github.com/dch/couchdb/downloads.

As of writing the most current snapshot is 1.1.1_js185.

Run the setup and install Couch as a Windows Service.

Install Gow

We recommend installing Gow because Kanso needs a working tar command. Gow provides many Unix utilities in the Win32 environment.

Download the latest version and install Gow.

toka: at least in gow 0.5 tar is broken since it does not support compressed tars

Install Node.js

The Kanso command line tool requires Node in order to do its work. Download the Node.js Windows Installer from the Node.js website, the latest version is v0.6.9 as of this writing.

C:\> node -v
v0.6.9
C:\> npm -v
1.1.0-3

Install Kanso

Kanso is installed via NPM (Node Package Manager). This might take a minute depending on your connection since npm downloads the kanso package:

C:\> npm  install -g kanso

Then invoke the kanso binary to see the initial help output, if you see no errors, you can dive in!

C:\> kanso