Erlang debian packages

CloudAMQP built erlang debian packages. Named esl-erlang for compability with rabbitmq-server which depends on esl-erlang (or erlang-base, but the multi-package approach is difficult).

Building is done in Dockerfile and GitHub Action uploads the packages to to PackageCloud.

Excluded erlang packages:

• wx
• megaco
• odbc
• java

Versions

Every version of Erlang that is released on GitHub is built, currently for Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 24.04.

Install

Install from https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang

When sudo is required:

. /etc/os-release
curl -L https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/gpgkey | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudamqp-erlang.list << EOF
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/$ID $VERSION_CODENAME main
EOF
sudo apt update
sudo apt install esl-erlang

On a bare system, eg. in a container:

apt update && apt install -y curl gnupg
. /etc/os-release
curl -L https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/gpgkey | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg
tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/cloudamqp-erlang.list << EOF
deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/cloudamqp-erlang.gpg] https://packagecloud.io/cloudamqp/erlang/$ID $VERSION_CODENAME main
EOF
apt update
apt install esl-erlang

Development

To test if a erlang version builds well you can use the tester stage in the Dockerfile:

podman build --target tester --build-arg image=ubuntu:jammy --build-arg erlang_version=26.0 --build-arg rabbitmq_version=3.13.0 .

https://depot.dev/ is used for building multi-plaform images on native hardware, the Dockerfile used to be crosscompiling, but not anymore as it increases complexity.