libssl-dev and unixodbc-dev is optional but needed for SSL and ODBC support.

sudo apt-get install build-essential libncurses5-dev
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev unixodbc-dev
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13A.tar.gz
tar zxvf otp_src_R13A.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R13A
./configure
make
sudo make install
erl

Having installed Erlang at work on our lab server for running and testing CouchDB for various projects I feel it’s time I actually start digging in to the language itself and code some applications.
First I was thinking of trying out Erlang for website backend development and mainly for handling REST and user authentication. But the [...]