How to install erlang on ubuntu

• Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential libncurses5-dev openssl libssl-dev fop xsltproc unixodbc-dev

• Download source code of erlang

wget http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_19.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf otp_src_19.2.tar.gz
cd otp_src_19.2

• Configurate and compile the source code of erlang

./configure && make && sudo make install

• Verify

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