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Debian flavors alternative installation #1704

Closed naxels closed 1 year ago

naxels commented 1 year ago

Hi all,

It took me a while in order to figure out how to get the latest Erlang / Elixir versions working on Ubuntu LTS 22.04 while not having to deal with the OS versions and / or compile the latest versions myself each time.

Finally I found a great resource provided by the community as listed here in Method 1: https://itsfoss.com/install-erlang-ubuntu/

I've been able to successfully follow this guide with 1 change to install Elixir which automatically installs Erlang:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang sudo apt update sudo apt install elixir

I think it would be a great help to newcomers to have this option available as well, likely mentioning that the versioned approach is preferred.

I wanted to make a PR but don't know exactly where to put this in the Installing Elixir page: https://elixir-lang.org/install.html#gnulinux

as there are several Debian flavors like Ubuntu and you don't want to list this everywhere.

Thank you for considering!

josevalim commented 1 year ago

I think we can list it as an alternative for Debian, since the Elixir package is not always up to date. :) PRs welcome!

naxels commented 1 year ago

I might be using the PPA too short then haha, even Elixir 1.15.4 is already available currently: https://launchpad.net/~rabbitmq/+archive/ubuntu/rabbitmq-erlang

Will work on a PR :)