Installing on RHEL as non-root, non-sudo is used only for development purposes.

There are cases when you want to install Couchbase Server as a non-root, non-sudo user. A non-sudo, non-root installation still runs Couchbase Server and all Couchbase command-line tools.

1. After downloading the Couchbase RPM, go to the directory where it is located and extract it:

   
   rpm2cpio couchbase-server-community_x86_64_2.0.0-1767-rel.rpm | cpio --extract --make-directories \
   --no-absolute-filenames
   

   In the directory where the files were extracted, the opt and etc subdirectories are available.
2. If you need to separately provide openssl098e, put the contents of this library into opt/couchbase/lib:
   1. Download openssl098e–0.9.8e–17.el6.centos.2.x86_64.rpm.
   2. Go to the directory where you extracted Couchbase Server: cd opt/couchbase.
   3. Extract openssl098e RPM:

      rpm2cpio
      openssl098e-0.9.8e-17.el6.centos.2.x86_64.rpm | cpio --extract
      --make-directories --no-absolute-filenames

   4. Move the extracted files to the /lib directory for Couchbase Server: mv usr/lib64/* lib/
3. After you extract the Couchbase Server installation files, go to the subdirectory cd opt/couchbase.
4. Run the following password-related script: ./bin/install/reloc.sh \`pwd` This enables you to continue the installation as a non-root, non-sudo user.
5. To run the server, use ./bin/couchbase-server \-- -noinput -detached.
6. To stop the server, use ./bin/couchbase-server -k .