Linux Prerequisites

  • Install required packages
  • asdf
  • erlang
  • elixir

Install required packages

For more detailed instructions, see https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang#ubuntu-and-debian

Ubuntu

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt -y install build-essential autoconf m4 libncurses5-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev \
libgl1-mesa-dev libglu1-mesa-dev libpng-dev libssh-dev libsctp-dev unixodbc-dev xsltproc xmllint fop

Install asdf

asdf is an extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more: https://asdf-vm.com

Install it following the instructions at https://asdf-vm.com/#/core-manage-asdf-vm?id=install-asdf-vm

git clone https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf.git ~/.asdf --branch v0.7.8

Add asdf to your shell

Using Bash:

echo '. $HOME/.asdf/asdf.sh' >> ~/.bashrc

Logout then log back in, or source ~/.bashrc then verify asdf installation:

$ asdf --version
v0.7.8-4a3e3d6

Install Erlang

Using asdf, first install Erlang. As of this writing, the latest stable version is 22.3.3:

asdf plugin add erlang
asdf install erlang 22.3.3

(The last command above can take a while to finish, and will need to download about 53.2MB of data.)

Afterwards, set the global erlang version:

asdf global erlang 22.3.3

Verify Erlang installation:

$ erl -s erlang halt
Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.7.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [ds:2:2:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]

Install Elixir

Again using asdf, now install Elixir. As of this writing, the latest stable version is 1.10.3:

asdf plugin add elixir
asdf install elixir 1.10.3
asdf global elixir 1.10.3

Verify Elixir installation:

$ elixir --version
Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.7.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [ds:2:2:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]

Elixir 1.10.3 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 21)

You may now proceed to the Basics.