In this tutorial, we will guide you through the installation of Elixir on POP! OS Latest.
Elixir is a dynamic, functional programming language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Elixir runs on the Erlang virtual machine and is commonly used to build web applications, distributed systems, and embedded software.
Before we proceed with the installation, make sure that your system meets the following prerequisites:
Before we proceed with the installation of Elixir, we will update the system package list and upgrade the existing packages. Open a terminal emulator and run the following command:
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Enter your password to proceed with the upgrade.
Elixir runs on the Erlang virtual machine, so we will install Erlang first. Run the following command in the terminal to install Erlang:
sudo apt install erlang
Erlang will be installed on your system.
Elixir is not available in the official package repository of POP! OS Latest, so we will download it from the official website. Open the browser and go to the Elixir website at https://elixir-lang.org.
Click on the "Download" link from the menu at the top of the page. On the download page, scroll down to the "Precompiled.zip" section and click on the link to download the latest version of Elixir.
After downloading the Elixir package, extract it using the unzip command:
unzip -d elixir-1.12.3 precompiled.zip
This will extract the files to the elixir-1.12.3 folder.
We will create a symbolic link to the Elixir binary in the /usr/local/bin directory. This will make Elixir available system-wide.
sudo ln -s ~/elixir-1.12.3/bin/elixir /usr/local/bin/
sudo ln -s ~/elixir-1.12.3/bin/mix /usr/local/bin/
Elixir is now installed on your system.
To verify the installation, run the following command in the terminal:
elixir --version
This command will print the version of Elixir installed on your system.
In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Elixir on POP! OS Latest. Elixir is a powerful programming language and is used to build scalable and maintainable applications. We hope that this tutorial has helped you get started with Elixir.
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