I'm using CouchDB 1.5 on Ubuntu Desktop 14.04. I'm having trouble understanding how the Fauxton app got installed (as I don't recall installing it.)
I found the UI at [myhostip]:5984/_utils/fauxton/ but I can't locate all of the files on disk. So the questions are:
1) I'm thinking the Ubuntu Software Center installed some sort of package, but wondered if someone could confirm that?
2) Where the application files on disk?
Fauxton is a part of couchdb, in fact it is the default user interface for 2.0. Most likely your fauxton is in
/usr/local/share/couchdb/www/fauxton
to find out for sure open your your config file
http://localhost:5984/_utils/config.html
and look for
__utils in httpd_global_handlers section and it will tell you where couchdb utilities are installed. In the utilities directory you should see a fauxton folder which contains the fuaxton files.
Don't worry though no third party installed it. It is a part of couchdb package. Here is the repo on github.