[erlang-questions] How to install a specific version of erlang and uninstall a previously installed version on linux

[Abhishek Ranjan]

Hi,
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.
Then I decided to install it using kerl from the link
[https://github.com/kerl/kerl](https://github.com/kerl/kerl)

but after the command : chmod a+x kerl
it is written that : drop it in your $PATH
I am not able to understand what path is it talking about. Do we also have a root path like windows, in linux also?
Can you please guide a little?
Regards
Abhishek


> On May 2, 2017 at 6:04 PM Graham Hay <grahamrhay@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>     Erlang Solutions provide pre-built binaries of newer versions:
> 
>     https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang/
> 
>     Or you can build it yourself (using e.g kerl).
> 
 
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