How To Install Erlang

sudo apt-get build-dep erlang

sudo apt-get install fop libncurses5-dev openjdk-6-jdk unixodbc-dev g++ libssl-dev libwxbase2.8 libwxgtk2.8-dev libqt4-opengl-dev libgtk2.0-dev

wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R16B.tar.gz

cd otp_src_*

./configure

make

make docs

sudo make install

sudo make install-docs

Credit: Jirayut for the installation steps