How to install erlang on ubuntu 16.04

Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. In this tutorial, i will help you “how to install erlang on ubuntu 16.04 operating system.

Adding repository for erlang

$ cd /opt/
$ wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb

Update repository

$ sudo apt-get update

Install erlang on ubuntu

$ sudo apt-get install erlang

Alternatively, you can to install erlang on ubuntu with specify version

To search for erlang package version on ubuntu with apt-cache command as below:

$ sudo apt-cache show erlang

installing erlang package version

$ sudo apt-get install erlang=version-number

Conclusion

Thought the article, you have installed erlang on ubuntu server. Thank you for reading the DevopsRoles page!

Ref to link https://www.erlang.org/course.