Installation of Erlang on Linux:

Step 1: Adding Repository:
Use following commands to add Erlang apt repository. We can simply download Erlang repository package from its official website and install on our system.

$ wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb

Step 2:Installing Erlang on ubuntu
Now, we will install all packages and dependencies for Erlang using following commands:

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install erlang

Alternatively, we can do complete installation of Erlang which includes erlang/otp platform and all of its application.

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install esl-erlang