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</head><body>Hi,<br>I tried installing erlang from the packages link but it didn't worked for me somehow,then I tried installing it from source but instead of installing 6.1 Erlang/OTP 17.1 it installed erts 5.8.5 instead of 6.1.<br>Then I decided to install it using kerl from the link<br>[https://github.com/kerl/kerl](https://github.com/kerl/kerl)<br><br>but after the command : chmod a+x kerl<br>it is written that : drop it in your $PATH<br>I am not able to understand what path is it talking about. Do we also have a root path like windows, in linux also?<br>Can you please guide a little?<br>Regards <br>Abhishek<br><br><blockquote type="cite">
On May 2, 2017 at 6:04 PM Graham Hay <grahamrhay@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br><div dir="ltr">Erlang Solutions provide pre-built binaries of newer versions:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang/">https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>Or you can build it yourself (using e.g kerl).</div></div>
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