Is there a gentler way to install erlang?

[jdmarshall]

I'm running asdf install on an Armbian device and installing Erlang is so CPU intensive that it stops responding to ssh requests. Seems like the parallelism might be a bit... aggressive. It's doing a lot of post-download work and I'm wondering if that's particular to Armbian. No precompiled binaries? Is there a flag I can set to reduce the number of jobs?

I have a handful of these devices so if there's a way I can transfer from one machine to the others short of cloning the disks I'd be interested in any pointers.

[Stratus3D]

There is https://www.erlang-solutions.com/resources/download.html

I don't know if Erlang Solutions offers something that would work on Armbian, but I do see they offer Rasbian packages.

I suppose it would be nice to be able to give users the option of compiling from source or using a pre-built package.

[jdmarshall]

I don't believe it's the best optimization level, but it installs and seems to run.

Is it a matter of not finding precompiled images for my machine or that it prefers installing from source?

[Stratus3D]

It prefers to install from source right now via kerl. We need to add support for install precompiled Erlang packages on our own if possible.

[andresdotsh]

This worked for me: https://dev.to/drebits/how-to-install-erlang-on-macos-with-asdf-3p1c