Requires erlang >= 19.3 when installing RabbitMQ on Red Hat

[Cazra]

I'm trying to install RabbitMQ (v3.7.4) on Red Hat (workstation v7 64-bit) using the zero-dependency RPM here. I've installed the OTP-20.3 version by following the instructions in your README and set my path to include its bin directory, but when I then try to install Rabbit MQ, I get the following error output:

$ sudo yum install rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, search-disabled-repos, subscription-
              : manager
Examining rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch.rpm: rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch
Marking rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package rabbitmq-server.noarch 0:3.7.4-1.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: erlang >= 19.3 for package: rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch
--> Processing Dependency: socat for package: rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch
--> Running transaction check
---> Package rabbitmq-server.noarch 0:3.7.4-1.el7 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: erlang >= 19.3 for package: rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch
---> Package socat.x86_64 0:1.7.3.2-2.el7 will be installed
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch (/rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch)
           Requires: erlang >= 19.3
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Error: Package: rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch (/rabbitmq-server-3.7.4-1.el7.noarch)
           Requires: erlang >= 19.3
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Somehow it doesn't recognize that I've installed v20.3, which should satisfy the requirement of having erlang >= 19.3. Any idea what's going wrong?

[michaelklishin]

Thank you for your time.

Team RabbitMQ uses GitHub issues for specific actionable items engineers can work on. GitHub issues are not used for questions, investigations, root cause analysis, discussions of potential issues, etc (as defined by this team).

We get at least a dozen of questions through various venues every single day, often light on details. At that rate GitHub issues can very quickly turn into a something impossible to navigate and make sense of even for our team. Because GitHub is a tool our team uses heavily nearly every day, the signal/noise ratio of issues is something we care about a lot.

Please post this to rabbitmq-users.

Thank you.

[michaelklishin]

This package gets 10K installations a month from Bintray alone, the majority of which are 20.x versions. This is very likely something system-specific, please post this to the list for now.