How To Install erlang on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang
on CentOS 7.
What is erlang
Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install erlang
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install erlang.
Install erlang on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install erlang
using yum
by running the following command:
Install erlang on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install erlang
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall erlang on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the erlang
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.