Erlang/OTP packages for Debian and Ubuntu

This repository contains release automation files for Debian and Ubuntu packages of Erlang/OTP. It is maintained by the RabbitMQ team.

This work is based on the official Erlang/OTP package for Debian. The RabbitMQ team adapted the upstream package to produce packages for more/different combinations of Erlang/OTP, Debian and Ubuntu releases.

Unlike Team RabbitMQ's zero dependency Erlang/OTP RPM, these packages are not monolithic and use the same dependency tree as the official Debian packages of Erlang.

Supported Erlang/OTP and Debian/Ubuntu Combinations

Packages are published to several Launchpad PPAs:

• ~rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang (26.x)
• ~rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang-25 (25.3.x)

as well a Cloudsmith.io mirror (see below).

The following distributions are currently covered by at least one (e.g. Erlang 26.x) release series of this package, corresponding to the RabbitMQ Erlang requirement matrix:

• Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble)
• Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy)
• Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal)
• Debian Trixie
• Debian Bookworm
• Debian Bullseye
• Debian Buster

For each distribution, the following release series of Erlang/OTP can be produced:

• 26.x
• 25.3.x

For every release series, only the latest minor series is supported.

Apt Repository Setup

Launchpad PPA

See the section on provisioning modern Erlang versions from Launchpad in the RabbitMQ Ubuntu and Debian installation guide, or the installation instructions of the PPAs:

• ~rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang (26.x)
• ~rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang-25 (25.3.x)

Community Mirror of Cloudsmith

RabbitMQ Cloudsmith.io repository has a monthly traffic quota. As such, we recommend that a community mirror of that repository is used instead.

#!/usr/bin/sh

sudo apt-get install curl gnupg apt-transport-https -y

## Team RabbitMQ's main signing key
curl -1sLf "https://keys.openpgp.org/vks/v1/by-fingerprint/0A9AF2115F4687BD29803A206B73A36E6026DFCA" | sudo gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/com.rabbitmq.team.gpg > /dev/null
## Community mirror of Cloudsmith: modern Erlang repository
curl -1sLf https://ppa1.novemberain.com/gpg.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.key | sudo gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg > /dev/null

## Add apt repositories maintained by Team RabbitMQ
sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rabbitmq.list <<EOF
## Provides modern Erlang/OTP releases
##
deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg] https://ppa1.novemberain.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang/deb/ubuntu jammy main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg] https://ppa1.novemberain.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang/deb/ubuntu jammy main
EOF

## Update package indices
sudo apt-get update -y

## Install Erlang packages
sudo apt-get install -y erlang-base \
                        erlang-asn1 erlang-crypto erlang-eldap erlang-ftp erlang-inets \
                        erlang-mnesia erlang-os-mon erlang-parsetools erlang-public-key \
                        erlang-runtime-tools erlang-snmp erlang-ssl \
                        erlang-syntax-tools erlang-tftp erlang-tools erlang-xmerl

Differences from Other Debian Package Providers

Differences from the Official Debian Packages

Provided Erlang/OTP Versions

The main difference is the provided versions:

• The official Debian repository provides a single Erlang/OTP minor release for a given Debian distribution and this is frozen when the distribution is released. The package only receives bug fixes.

• Our repository provides many Erlang/OTP major releases for many distributions, taking the latest minor+patch release. It also provides a preview of the next in-development release branch of Erlang/OTP.

Supported architectures

Another difference is the supported architectures: we only support amd64 whereas Debian and Ubuntu provides packages for many more architectures.

Differences with the Erlang Solutions packages

Provided Erlang/OTP versions

Erlang Solutions provides Debian packages for many Erlang/OTP minor releases. However, patch releases in each series are often delayed or never published. In other words, they follow the Erlang/OTP sources published on erlang.org. This repository strives to make the latest patch releases of Erlang/OTP easy to consume.

Supported Architectures

Erlang Solutions produces 32-bit (i386) packages. This repository only provides 64-bit packages.

Distributions Coverage

One of the primary goals of this package is to make latest Erlang release series available to most popular Debian/Ubuntu distributions.

Erlang Solutions supports more distributions but older ones typically don't have the latest Erlang/OTP releases or entire series.

All-in-one Package

In addition to the fine-grained package set also provided by Debian and Ubuntu, Erlang Solutions publishes a convenient all-in-one package called esl-erlang.

This repository doesn't provide such packages.

How the Packages are Produced

Team RabbitMQ maintains a pipeline that automates the build process for all versions of Erlang/OTP and all Debian/Ubuntu distributions.

The packages produced from this source repository are then published to external packaging services such as Launchpad and Cloudsmith, and then to Cloudsmith mirrors.

When a new patch release is tagged in the Erlang/OTP repository, it is automatically picked up by the pipeline. Then the package changelog is updated and a new package is built, tested and published to Bintray.

Copyright and License

(c) 2018-2023 VMware, Inc and its affiliates.

Released under the Apache Software License 2.0, same as Erlang/OTP starting with 18.0.