The system is delivered as a single compressed tar file.
To browse the on-line HTML documentation, Netscape or an equivalent browser supporting frames is needed.
When installed, the entire system, except for a small start-up
script, resides in a single directory tree. The location of this
directory tree can be chosen arbitrarily by the installer, and it
does not need to be in the user's $PATH
. The only requirements
are that the file system where it is placed has enough free space,
and that the users who run Erlang/OTP have read access to it. In the
example below, the directory tree is assumed to be located at
/usr/local/erlang
, which is here called the top-level
directory.
It is assumed that you have the compressed tar file, the name of
which is <PREFIX>.tar.gz
, where <PREFIX>
is a string
denoting the particular Erlang/OTP release, e.g.
otp_LXA_11930_sunos5_R9B
.
Wherever the string <PREFIX>
is used below, it should
be replaced by the actual name prefix of the compressed tar file.
The tape archive file does not have one single directory in which all other files are rooted. Therefore the tape archive file must be extracted into an empty (newly created) directory.
mkdir /usr/local/erlang
cd /usr/local/erlang
mkdir otp_r7b
cd otp_r7b
<SOME-DIR>
,. extract the compressed tar file into the
current directory:gunzip -c <SOME-DIR>/<PREFIX>.tar.gz | tar xfp -
README
file in the installation directory for
last minute updates, before proceeding.Install
script in the installation directory,
with the absolute path of the installation directory as argument,
./Install /usr/local/erlang/otp_r7band supply answers to the prompts.
[]
). If the default is satisfactory, just press
<Return>
. In general you are only prompted for one thing:
/usr/local/erlang/otp_r7b/bin
in users $PATH
variable, or link the executable
/usr/local/erlang/otp_r7b/bin/erl
accordingly, e.g.:ln -s /usr/local/erlang/otp_r7b/bin/erl /usr/local/bin/erl
The system is delivered as a single .exe
file.
To browse the on-line HTML documentation, Netscape or an equivalent browser supporting frames is needed.
The installation procedure is is automated. Double-click the
.exe
file icon and follow the instructions.