Recently tried to install Elixir on Ubuntu 12.0.4 with the instructions found here (basically using apt-get install elixir) – http://elixir-lang.org/install.html Once the installation had completed, I found that I could not reach the CouchDB instance running on – http://localhost:5984. So I tried to remove and reinstall Couch itself. After doing so, I still couldn’t reach CouchDB on localhost. Only after