I use kerl (previously linked by Tom) on Arch w/o issue -- sourcing the activate file in my shell init scripts. Using pacman isn't an option because, as Tom mentioned, multiple versions of Erlang aren't handled by it well.
Jordan On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Tom Santero <tsant...@basho.com> wrote: > Hi Yves, > > This is less of a distro issue and more of a managing multiple versions of > Erlang issue. I would encourage you to check out either kerl[0] or > erln8[1]. kerl is more mature and well known, but erln8 (written by Basho's > Dave Parfitt) is pretty neat as it allows you to set a specific version of > Erlang to specific paths. > > Hope this helps. > > [0] https://github.com/spawngrid/kerl > [1] https://github.com/metadave/erln8 > > Tom > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Yves S. Garret <yoursurrogate...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I recently found out about Riak and wanted to give it a try on my laptop. >> I have Arch Linux running it and I like the OS enough so that I don't want >> to install something else in its place. >> >> The problem that I ran into is that I have R16B03 installed (and it works >> very well.) I need -- correct me if I'm wrong -- R15B01. However, I'm not >> sure how to do the install of R15B01 without over-riding the /usr/bin/erl >> symlink. >> >> Now, I'm thinking. How did others tackle this on the same type of >> distro? What would you recommend? >> >> --Yves >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> riak-users@lists.basho.com >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > riak-users mailing list > riak-users@lists.basho.com > http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com > >
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