APB9785
Like the topic says. Using apt installs 1.7, and says there are no more updates. Since Phoenix only requires 1.6+, maybe it’s just fine, but is there any other functionality that is missing?
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ityonemo
I wouldn’t trust distro packagers to give you the lastest version of software in general. Can you use a different installer like adsf? The hw itself supports higher versions (elixir-nerves distros are up to date)
jakemorrison
OS packages are generally there to be a dependency of some other package. They are stable, but out of date, as they don’t increase major versions after the OS is released.
Erlang Solutions maintains up to date packages: Erlang and Elixir Packages Download - Erlang Solutions
Packages are much more important for Erlang than for Elixir. Once you have an up to date Erlang, you can simply download Elixir from https://elixir-lang.org/
ASDF is great for managing app dependencies: Using ASDF with Elixir and Phoenix
It will take a while to compile Erlang, though, so if your machine doesn’t have a lot of resources, you can use the OS package for Erlang and use ASDF for Elixir.
APB9785
The official installation instructions at Installing Elixir - The Elixir programming language advise using apt or apt-get for all Linux and RPi installs. It doesn’t make sense that these commands would install outdated versions.
ityonemo
Perhaps those should be changed, but expecting an is package manager to be updated is misunderstanding how Linux packaging works. Ubuntu is generally lagging behind debian, even. Centos was famous for lagging behind red hat, which was itself behind fedora. The value prop is exactly that these distros are behind, so they present a relatively stable and matured experience.
APB9785
Is there a better installation guide than the one at elixir-lang.org? I found good instructions for building and installing Erlang at the official site but for Elixir everywhere is just recommending apt or brew install.
NobbZ
That link also clearly says:
So, follow that sentence and use asdf.
To be honest, in 15 years I have not yet the luxury of only needing a single version of a language installed.
And those versions that have been required by the projects always have been either behind or newer than the systems version.
So unless you are on nixOS, using asdf-vm for everything is a very good advice.