cp: cannot stat ‘share/docs/html’: No such file or directory

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cannot make install couchdb 2 i stuck again with the docs installation:

Installing CouchDB into //usr/local/lib/couchdb... ==> rel (generate) WARN: 'generate' command does not apply to directory /root/src/couchdb cp: cannot stat ‘share/docs/html’: No such file or directory Makefile:85: recipe for target 'install' failed make: *** [install] Error 1

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This is probably because you don't have man installed. You can either run ./configure --disable-docs or install man (apt-get install man for Ubuntu).

To be sure starting from scratch, you can run make clean && ./configure --disable-docs && make release