Issue installing Erlang 27.0.1 on linuxmint for Elixir installation: ERROR: 'asdf_27.0.1' is not a kerl-managed Erlang/OTP installation

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I tried to newly install elixir on Linuxmint 22, and while trying with erlang I keep getting this error. And even this happened with 19.0.1 version of Erlang too.

$asdf install erlang 27.0.1
Downloading kerl...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 82830  100 82830    0     0   223k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  224k
ERROR: 'asdf_27.0.1' is not a kerl-managed Erlang/OTP installation.
Build 'asdf_27.0.1' has been deleted.
Downloading (from GitHub) Erlang/OTP 27.0.1 to /home/rokfrog/.asdf/downloads/erlang/27.0.1...

Why is this happening? Any work around with this

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I used this plugin for Erlang on Mint just recently.

Found it here: Asdf-erlang plugins with precompiled Erlang for Ubuntu - #4 by michallepicki

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It still gave error message as above , "ERROR: ‘asdf_27.0.1’ is not a kerl-managed Erlang/OTP installation.
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This should be a warning, you can safely ignore it. asdf will then download and build erlang from sources. It’s expected.

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Thanks got it working

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(if you got this warning then you were not using my plugin but the regular asdf erlang plugin)