# Error when checking elixir version

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**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** install, elixir-ls\
**Created:** [March 4, 2021, 10:05pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/error-when-checking-elixir-version/37965 "2021-03-04T22:05:40Z")\
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You need to also activate the freshly installed elixir either in a project, in a shell or globally.

Please refer to the documentation of `asdf local` and `asdf global` for the most common use cases.

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