I’m a beginner, using Linux MInt 18.3 Cinnamon. I installed elixir with apt, but it only found version 1.1, and I’d like to use the newest version, but I have been having trouble. From memory here is what happened: Tried to install elixir 1.8.2 from source. Got error about Erlang (I had version 18)…

This seems to be quite a lot of trying. Can you please remove all of your installation attempts? Then it’s probably easiest to switch to Arch Linux :wink: or just use a toolset manager like asdf-vm. It will be able to install, run and change appropriate version sets as you specify them per project. …

Thanks for the replies. I tried asdf as well but was struggling to get it to find the newest version. I hadn’t seen this link so I will try again. I saw this compatibility table ( Compatibility and deprecations — Elixir v1.20.2 ) but I couldn’t get any of these combinations to work. For instance I t…

@peerreynders I can’t get asdf to work. I added plugin for elixir, installed then tried to use it and got the error: 01:10:27.753 [error] Loading of /usr/local/lib/erlang/lib/compiler-7.4/ebin/compile.beam failed: :badfile 01:10:27.754 [error] beam/beam_load.c(1878): Error loading module compile: …

[image] NobbZ: Then it’s probably easiest to switch to Arch Linux :laughing:

Please deinstall all former tries, also make sure that the location containing asdfs shims is located before your systems binaries in PATH.

I had issues installing Elixir on Linux initially too. I ended up using an installer provided on the Erlang Solutions website , which bundled Erlang and Elixir together. That seemed to be the easiest way to get started (though I intend on trying a version manager such as asdf soon). Edit: Corrected …

This is not the Erlang website! This is the website of Erlang solutions, a big supporter of the Erlang ecosystem. Also even though mint is a derivat of Ubuntu, I’d be careful to use the packages that were originally built for Debian and Ubuntu. Dependencies might not be available on mints repositor…

My bad on the mix-up. I’ve corrected my post. I agree regarding version managers — I’d love to have a well-designed manager like rvm for Elixir. I’m hoping that asdf is just as user-friendly.

I’ve Linux Mint 19 with over 10 versions of erlang and elixir installed via asdf without any problems: alexiss@alexiss:/work/home/alexiss$ asdf list erlang 20.0 20.1 20.2.2 20.2.3 20.3.1 20.3.2 21.0.8 21.1.1 21.2.1 21.3.2 21.3.6 21.3.8 22.0.1 alexiss@alexiss:/work/home/ale…

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