Installing Erlang in Ubuntu

When installing RabbitMQ, Erlang is a dependency. To install specific version of Erlang you can follow this article.

All the Erlang versions can be downloaded from http://www.erlang.org/download/ location. After selecting the correct version use the below commands to install Erlang in Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --fix-missing -y install build-essential m4 libncurses5-dev libssh-dev unixodbc-dev libgmp3-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libglu1-mesa-dev fop xsltproc 
mkdir -p /src/erlang
cd /src/erlang
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_18.2.tar.gz 
tar -xvzf otp_src_18.2.tar.gz
chmod -R 777 otp_src_18.2 
cd otp_src_18.2 
./configure
make
sudo make install