How To Install erlang-cowboy on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-cowboy on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is erlang-cowboy
erlang-cowboy is:
Cowboy is also a socket acceptor pool, able to accept connections for any kind of TCP protocol.
Cowboy aims to provide the following advantages:
- ‘Small’ code base.
- Damn ‘fast’.
- ‘Modular’: transport and protocol handlers are replaceable.
- ‘Binary HTTP’ for greater speed and lower memory usage.
- Easy to ’embed’ inside another application.
- Selectively ‘dispatch’ requests to handlers, allowing you to send some requests to your embedded code and others to a FastCGI application in PHP or Ruby.
- No parameterized module. No process dictionary. ‘Clean’ Erlang code.
There are three methods to install erlang-cowboy on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install erlang-cowboy Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install erlang-cowboy using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install erlang-cowboy
Install erlang-cowboy Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install erlang-cowboy using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install erlang-cowboy
Install erlang-cowboy Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install erlang-cowboy using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install erlang-cowboy
How To Uninstall erlang-cowboy on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the erlang-cowboy package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove erlang-cowboy
Uninstall erlang-cowboy And Its Dependencies
To uninstall erlang-cowboy and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove erlang-cowboy
Remove erlang-cowboy Configurations and Data
To remove erlang-cowboy configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge erlang-cowboy
Remove erlang-cowboy configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove erlang-cowboy configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge erlang-cowboy
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install erlang-cowboy package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
