In this tutorial, we will walk you through the steps to install Elixir on Alpine Linux. Elixir is a popular programming language that runs on the Erlang VM and is suitable for building distributed and fault-tolerant systems.
Before we start, ensure that you have the following:
Before installing any package on the system, update the existing packages and repositories.
sudo apk update
Next, we will install the dependencies required to build Elixir. Run the following command:
sudo apk add build-base openssl-dev erlang
Now we are ready to install Elixir. Start by adding the Elixir package repository:
sudo su -
echo "http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/testing" >> /etc/apk/repositories
exit
This command will switch to the root user and append the testing repository to the local repositories.
Once the repository is added, install the Elixir package using the following command:
sudo apk add elixir
To verify that Elixir is properly installed, run the following command:
elixir --version
This command will display the version of Elixir that is installed on the system.
In this tutorial, we covered the steps required to install Elixir on Alpine Linux. Elixir is a reliable and efficient programming language that is suitable for building distributed, fault-tolerant systems.
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