Catlg is a catalog. Use it to manage and display collections of things. Catlg is a CouchApp. To install it, get CouchDB up and running on your machine, install the couchapp command-line tool (http://couchapp.org/page/installing), cd into the Catlg directory, and run the following command: $ couchapp push . http://127.0.0.1:5984/catlg If you add a .couchapprc file to the Catlg directory with the following in it all you have to do is `couchapp push`: { "env": { "default": { "db": "http://127.0.0.1:5984/catlg/" } } }