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authorMagnus Lidén <[email protected]>2014-03-06 19:23:38 +0100
committerMagnus Lidén <[email protected]>2014-04-02 16:09:43 +0200
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Non-Windows binaries are not released any longer. Instructions are hence removed.
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<chapter>
<header>
<copyright>
- <year>2000</year><year>2013</year>
+ <year>2000</year><year>2014</year>
<holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
@@ -31,117 +31,40 @@
<rev>C</rev>
<file>install-binary.xml</file>
</header>
-
- <section>
- <title>UNIX</title>
-
- <section>
- <title>Introduction</title>
- <p>The system is delivered as a single compressed tar file.</p>
- <p>To browse the on-line HTML documentation, Netscape or an equivalent
- browser supporting frames is needed.</p>
- </section>
-
- <section>
- <title>Installation Procedure</title>
- <p>When installed, the entire system, except for a small start-up
- script, resides in a single directory tree. The location of this
- directory tree can be chosen arbitrarily by the installer, and it
- does not need to be in the user's <c>$PATH</c>. The only requirements
- are that the file system where it is placed has enough free space,
- and that the users who run Erlang/OTP have read access to it. In the
- example below, the directory tree is assumed to be located at
- <c>/usr/local/erlang</c>, which is here called the <em>top-level directory</em>.</p>
- <p>It is assumed that you have the compressed tar file, the name of
- which is <c><![CDATA[<PREFIX>.tar.gz]]></c>, where <c><![CDATA[<PREFIX>]]></c> is a string
- denoting the particular Erlang/OTP release, e.g.
- <c>otp_LXA_11930_sunos5_R9B</c>.</p>
- <p>Wherever the string <c><![CDATA[<PREFIX>]]></c> is used below, it should
- be replaced by the actual name prefix of the compressed tar file.</p>
- <p>The tape archive file does not have one single directory in which
- all other files are rooted. Therefore the tape archive file must be
- extracted into an empty (newly created) directory.</p>
- <list type="ordered">
- <item>
- <p>If the <em>top-level directory</em> does not already exist,
- create it:</p>
- <pre>
-mkdir /usr/local/erlang</pre>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Change the current directory to the <em>top level directory</em>:</p>
- <pre>
-cd /usr/local/erlang</pre>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Create the <em>installation directory</em> with an appropriate
- name. For example:</p>
- <pre>
-mkdir otp_r7b</pre>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Change to the <em>installation directory</em>, e.g.</p>
- <pre>
-cd otp_r7b</pre>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Assuming the compressed tar file resides in the directory
- <c><![CDATA[<SOME-DIR>]]></c>,. extract the compressed tar file into the
- current directory:</p>
- <pre>
-gunzip -c &lt;SOME-DIR&gt;/&lt;PREFIX&gt;.tar.gz | tar xfp -</pre>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Read the <c>README</c> file in the installation directory for
- last minute updates, before proceeding.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Run the <c>Install</c> script in the installation directory,
- with the absolute path of the installation directory as argument,</p>
- <pre>
-./Install /usr/local/erlang/otp_r7b</pre>
- <p>and supply answers to the prompts.</p>
- <p>In most cases, there is a default answer in square brackets
- (<c>[]</c>). If the default is satisfactory, just press
- <c><![CDATA[<Return>]]></c>. In general you are only prompted for one thing:</p>
- <list type="bulleted">
- <item>
- <p>"Do you want to use a minimal system startup instead of the
- SASL startup?" <br></br>
-
- In a minimal system, only the Kernel and STDLIB applications
- are loaded and started. If the SASL startup is used, the SASL
- application is included as well. Normally, the minimal system
- is enough.</p>
- </item>
- </list>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Make Erlang/OTP available for users, either by putting the path
- <c>/usr/local/erlang/otp_r7b/bin</c> in users <c>$PATH</c>
- variable, or link the executable
- <c>/usr/local/erlang/otp_r7b/bin/erl</c> accordingly, e.g.:</p>
- <pre>
-ln -s /usr/local/erlang/otp_r7b/bin/erl /usr/local/bin/erl </pre>
- </item>
- </list>
- </section>
- </section>
-
<section>
<title>Windows</title>
<section>
<title>Introduction</title>
- <p>The system is delivered as a single <c>.exe</c> file.</p>
- <p>To browse the on-line HTML documentation, Netscape or an equivalent
- browser supporting frames is needed.</p>
+ <p>The system is delivered as a Windows Installer executable.
+ Get it from our <url href="http://www.erlang.org/download.html">download page</url>.</p>
</section>
<section>
- <title>Installation Procedure</title>
+ <title>Installation</title>
<p>The installation procedure is is automated. Double-click the
<c>.exe</c> file icon and follow the instructions.</p>
</section>
+ <section>
+ <title>Verification</title>
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>
+ <p>Start Erlang/OTP by double-clicking on the Erlang shortcut icon on the
+ desktop.</p>
+ <p>Expect a command line window to pop up with an output looking something like this:</p>
+ <pre>
+ Erlang/OTP 17 [erts-6.0] [64-bit] [smp:2:2]
+
+ Eshell V6.0 (abort with ^G)
+ 1></pre>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p>Exit by entering the command <c>halt()</c>,</p>
+ <pre>
+ 2> <input>halt().</input></pre>
+ <p>which will close the Erlang/OTP shell. </p>
+ </item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
</section>
</chapter>