diff --git a/erlang/r14.rb b/erlang/r14.rb
index 409d42e..91f0244 100644
--- a/erlang/r14.rb
+++ b/erlang/r14.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,16 @@ class ErlangR14 < FPM::Cookery::Recipe
   sha256   '099b35910e635b9148ac90f70fd9dd592920ed02406eb26c349efd8d1e959b6e'
 
   section 'main'
-  build_depends 'libncurses5-dev', 'libssl-dev', 'libc6-dev-i386'
+  
+  case platform
+    when :centos, :redhat
+      then
+      build_depends 'ncurses-devel', 'glibc-devel', 'openssl-devel'
+    when :debian, :ubuntu
+      then
+      build_depends 'libncurses5-dev', 'libssl-dev', 'libc6-dev-i386'
+  end 
+  
   depends       'openssl'
 
   def build
diff --git a/erlang/r15.rb b/erlang/r15.rb
index 45ebefc..bda6e46 100644
--- a/erlang/r15.rb
+++ b/erlang/r15.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,16 @@ class ErlangR15 < FPM::Cookery::Recipe
   sha256   '5bc34fc34fc890f84bae7ff1f7c81fbec2c9aa28a0ef51a57d7a8192204d8aa2'
 
   section 'main'
-  build_depends 'libncurses5-dev', 'libssl-dev', 'libc6-dev-i386'
+  
+  case platform
+    when :centos, :redhat
+      then
+      build_depends 'ncurses-devel', 'glibc-devel', 'openssl-devel'
+    when :debian, :ubuntu
+      then
+      build_depends 'libncurses5-dev', 'libssl-dev', 'libc6-dev-i386'
+  end 
+  
   depends       'openssl'
 
   def build
diff --git a/erlang/recipe.rb b/erlang/recipe.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..deac813
--- /dev/null
+++ b/erlang/recipe.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+# Adapted from the formula in brew2deb.
+
+class ErlangR16 < FPM::Cookery::Recipe
+  description 'Concurrent, real-time, distributed functional language'
+
+  name     'erlang-r16'
+  version  '16.b.1'
+  homepage 'http://www.erlang.org'
+  source   'http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R16B01.tar.gz'
+  sha256   'da388bc07b8ebdd008f5bb6c3d2c280e358bd188b5aac3ea01e3a7436315abc0'
+
+  section 'main'
+
+  case platform
+    when :centos, :redhat
+      then
+      build_depends 'ncurses-devel', 'glibc-devel', 'openssl-devel'
+    when :debian, :ubuntu
+      then
+      build_depends 'libncurses5-dev', 'libssl-dev', 'libc6-dev-i386'
+  end
+
+  depends       'openssl'
+
+  def build
+    # Do this if building from a checkout to generate configure
+    #system "./otp_build autoconf" if File.exist? "otp_build"
+
+    configure :enable_debug => true,
+            :prefix => "/mochi/opt",
+            :enable_kernel_poll => true,
+            :enable_threads => true,
+            :enable_dynamic_ssl_lib => true,
+            :enable_smp_support => true
+
+    inline_replace 'Makefile' do |s|
+      s.gsub! %r{^install\.bin:}, "install.bin:\ndisabled-install.bin:"
+    end
+
+    make 'libdir_suffix' => '/erlang-r15'
+  end
+
+  def install
+    make :install, 'DESTDIR' => destdir, 'libdir_suffix' => '/erlang-r15'
+  end
+
+  def test
+    `#{bin}/erl -noshell -eval 'crypto:start().' -s init stop`
+
+    # This test takes some time to run, but per bug #120 should finish in
+    # "less than 20 minutes". It takes a few minutes on a Mac Pro (2009).
+    if ARGV.include? "--time"
+      `#{bin}/dialyzer --build_plt -r #{lib}/erlang/lib/kernel-2.14.1/ebin/`
+    end
+  end
+end