Tomado y actualizado desde: http://www.clock.co.uk/blog/how-to-create-a-private-npmjs-repository

Ubuntu plano recomendado

Instalar los paquetes necesarios
apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libtool erlang libicu-dev libmozjs-17.0-dev libmozjs-24-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev

apt-get install couchdb

Sweet! But are we responding to requests?

$ curl -X GET http://localhost:5984
 [info] [<0.361.0>] 127.0.0.1 - - GET / 200