# Problem with install elixir and dependencies **URL:** \ **Category:** Questions\ **Tags:** troubleshooting\ **Created:** [February 21, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665 "2018-02-21T13:15:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![magap](https://forum.elixirforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@magap](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/magap)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665/1 "2018-02-21T13:15:39Z")
Hi, I have big problem with install elixir. I installed it, but when I want check version ‘elixir -v’, I receive communicate: ‘elixir 1.5.0 not installed’. But when I put: ‘sudo apt-get install elixir’, I receive communicate: Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done elixir is already the newest version (1.1.0~0.20150708-1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. So seems like I have elixir… But I haven’t. Where can be a problem? I use Ubuntu 16. Thanks for any tips. ---
**Author:** ![aseigo](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/aseigo/32/10674_2.png) [@aseigo](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/aseigo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665/2 "2018-02-21T13:34:54Z")
> [@magap](#): > > elixir is already the newest version (1.1.0~0.20150708-1) Not sure exactly what has ended up on your system, but the package manager is installing v1.1.0 of Elixir. Which is 2.5 years old, which is ~1/3rd of the age of Elixir itself 🙂 A much more convenient way to get Erlang and Elixir imho is to use [asdf](https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf) … ``` asdf plugin-add erlang asdf plugin-add elixir asdf install erlang 20.1 asdf global erlang 20.1 asdf install elixir 1.6.0 asdf global elixir 1.6.0 ``` Benefits being that you can have multiple versions installed, and it hardly matters which version of your OS you are using. ---
**Author:** ![kokolegorille](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/kokolegorille/32/4784_2.png) [@kokolegorille](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/kokolegorille)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665/3 "2018-02-21T13:40:33Z")
To complete @aseigo response, You can also specify -otp when installing elixir with asdf. ```bash $ asdf install elixir 1.6.1-otp ... $ elixir -v Erlang/OTP 20 [erts-9.1] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] Elixir 1.6.1 (compiled with OTP 20) ``` **UPDATE** : it should be -otp-20 as mentionned by @sztosz ---
**Author:** ![aseigo](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/aseigo/32/10674_2.png) [@aseigo](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/aseigo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665/4 "2018-02-21T14:12:17Z")
> [@kokolegorille](#): > > You can also specify -otp when installing elixir with asdf Perhaps that depends on the system you are on? I don’t have such an option available here with asdf v 0.4.2 on Linux … ---
**Author:** ![sztosz](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/sztosz/32/1251_2.png) [@sztosz](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/sztosz)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665/5 "2018-02-21T14:24:49Z")
Oh, I think the correct syntax is `asdf install elixir 1.6.1-otp-20` it works with asdf 0.4.1 installed from git. ---
**Author:** ![magap](https://forum.elixirforum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@magap](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/magap)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665/6 "2018-02-21T14:28:42Z")
Thanks @aseigo, it works now! ---
**Author:** ![aseigo](https://forum.elixirforum.com/user_avatar/forum.elixirforum.com/aseigo/32/10674_2.png) [@aseigo](https://forum.elixirforum.com/u/aseigo)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.elixirforum.com/t/problem-with-install-elixir-and-dependencies/12665/7 "2018-02-21T16:52:39Z")
Yep, that works 🙂