As an update to my previous notes on building R22.2, my current notes for building Erlang R23.0 and installing ZX using kerl on a fresh system (Kubuntu 18.04 LTS) are below. The same instructions (or very nearly the same) should work for any Debian or Ubuntu version within a few years of 18.04 LTS.
sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt install \ gcc curl g++ dpkg-dev build-essential automake autoconf \ libncurses5-dev libssl-dev flex xsltproc libwxgtk3.0-dev \ wget vim git mkdir vcs bin cd vcs git clone https://github.com/kerl/kerl.git cd .. ln -s ~/vcs/kerl/kerl bin/kerl kerl update releases kerl build 23.0 23.0 kerl install 23.0 ~/.erts/23.0 echo '. "$HOME"/.erts/23.0/activate' >> .bashrc . ~/.erts/23.0/activate wget -q https://zxq9.com/projects/zomp/get_zx && bash get_zx
[NOTE: ~/vcs/
is where I usually put “version control system” managed code and my backup and sync scripts know to never copy or update that one.]
And that’s that. If you’re on a full desktop installation some of the packages in the apt install [stuff...]
may be redundant, of course (who doesn’t already have wget and git?), but that’s no big deal.