Ah, Devuan… the great migration begins. Leaving KDE and Ubuntu behind means learning a few new habits, and as opposed to that sucking really badly, there is actually quite a lot of good news: old-school GTK and Qt programs are pretty darn good these days and dramatically lighter weight than the KDE mainstays. Yes, KDE […]
Tag: Ubuntu
Building Erlang 26.2.5 on Ubuntu 24.04
A new Ubuntu LTS, a new set of minor package naming annoyances. Here is the current process:
Building Erlang 23.3.4.3 on Devuan/Debian/Ubuntu
Erlang R24 is out! …but there are, as usual with a version X.0 release, a few rough edges (enough of them around the important-but-annoying WX and OpenGL updates that I’ll be writing another post about that shortly…). In the meantime, R23.3.4.3 is excellent and quite reliable. The steps for building with kerl are nearly identical […]
Erlang: Video tutorial HOWTO on installing Erlang and ZX from scratch on Ubuntu Linux
I’m flattered to find that Dr. Kumar made a tutorial video of how to install Erlang and ZX on a fresh Ubuntu system and check that it is working by playing Erltris. It is sort of a video version of previous instructionals and the ZX quickstart docs all in one place. Big thanks to Dr. […]
Building Erlang R23.0 on Debian/Ubuntu
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 […]
Building Erlang R22.2 on Debian/Ubuntu
As an update to my previous notes on building R22, my current notes for building Erlang R22.2 and installing ZX using kerl on a fresh system (Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS) follow: 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 […]