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Fix the Elixir minimum version on guide to 1.5 (phoenixframework#3229)
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Starting from version 1.4, Phoenix generates the Elixir child spec
(making Elixir 1.5 the minimum working version for newly created
Phoenix 1.4 apps).
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victor-am authored and chrismccord committed Jan 3, 2019
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Please take a look at this list and make sure to install anything necessary for your system. Having dependencies installed in advance can prevent frustrating problems later on.

### Elixir 1.4 or later
### Elixir 1.5 or later

Phoenix is written in Elixir, and our application code will also be written in Elixir. We won't get far in a Phoenix app without it! The Elixir site maintains a great [Installation Page](https://elixir-lang.org/install.html) to help.

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### Phoenix

To check that we are on Elixir 1.4 and Erlang 18 or later, run:
To check that we are on Elixir 1.5 and Erlang 18 or later, run:
```console
elixir -v
Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.3] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false] [dtrace]

Elixir 1.4.2
Elixir 1.5.3
```

Once we have Elixir and Erlang, we are ready to install the Phoenix Mix archive. A Mix archive is a Zip file which contains an application as well as its compiled BEAM files. It is tied to a specific version of the application. The archive is what we will use to generate a new, base Phoenix application which we can build from.
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