Installing Elixir on an Nvidia Jetson Nano development board

holder66

I am attempting to install Elixir on an Nvidia Jetson Nano development board. This board runs ubuntu 18.04 LTS, on a 4-core ARMv8 rev 1 (v8l) processor. I’ve attempted to install using the distributions, then precompiled packages, and then compiling from source. Erlang/OTP 20 seems to install OK, following the instructions for the ubuntu distribution, but then continuing it installs elixir 1.3.3. iex works, but elixir --version terminates abnormally.
Any help appreciated!

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lpil

Creator of Gleam

Could you share any error message printed please?

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outlog

give asdf a try..

https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf

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benwilson512

Author of Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

Elixir 1.3 is definitely not compatible with OTP 20. Weird that that’s the version that’s showing up. I’d consider using asdf as suggested by @outlog to a modern version of the language.

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gentprog

@lpil I’m just trying this now using the Raspberry Pi instructions from the elixir-lang.org site. I get the following when I try to get the elixir and iex versions:

$ elixir -v
Erlang/OTP 20 [erts-9.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]

{"init terminating in do_boot",{{badmatch,error},[{'Elixir.System',build,0,[{file,"lib/system.ex"},{line,172}]},{'Elixir.System',build_info,0,[{file,"lib/system.ex"},{line,164}]},{'Elixir.Kernel.CLI',parse_shared,2,[{file,"lib/kernel/cli.ex"},{line,153}]},{'Elixir.Kernel.CLI','shared_option?',3,[{file,"lib/kernel/cli.ex"},{line,113}]},{'Elixir.Kernel.CLI',main,1,[{file,"lib/kernel/cli.ex"},{line,14}]},{init,start_em,1,[]},{init,do_boot,3,[]}]}}
init terminating in do_boot ({{badmatch,error},[{Elixir.System,build,0,[{_},{_}]},{Elixir.System,build_info,0,[{_},{_}]},{Elixir.Kernel.CLI,parse_shared,2,[{_},{_}]},{Elixir.Kernel.CLI,shared_option?,

Crash dump is being written to: erl_crash.dump...done

$ iex -v
Erlang/OTP 20 [erts-9.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]

*** Shell process terminated! (^G to start new job) ***

$time $metadata[$level] $levelpad$message
 
BREAK: (a)bort (c)ontinue (p)roc info (i)nfo (l)oaded
       (v)ersion (k)ill (D)b-tables (d)istribution

Post #4

greghgradwell

I was able to install Elixir using the Nerves installation instructions. I’m running Ubuntu 18.04.
https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves/blob/master/docs/Installation.md

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holder66

@greghgradwell what version of elixir and OTP did you install (and on the Nvidia Jetson Nano, right?)

Post #6

greghgradwell

@holder66 Yes, this is on the Nano, with L4T 32.1.0 (I haven’t updated to 32.2 yet). I just used the same commands as the ones in the document, so I’m assuming it’s Erlang 22.0.7, and Elixir 1.9.1.

It definitely takes a while to install Erlang on the Nano. When it was building the source code I got a couple warnings about some Docs not being available, and then it appears to be unresponsive, but just let it keep running. Had all 4 CPUs maxed out for like 30 minutes (or at least it felt that long).

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