Elixir - Environment

In order to run Elixir, you need to set it up locally on your system. To install Elixir, you'll first need erlang. On some platforms, elixir packages come with erlang in them.

Installing Elixir

Windows setup

To install elixir on windows, download installer from https://repo.hex.pm/elixir-websetup.exe and simply click next through all steps. You'll have it on your local system.
If you have any problems while installing it, you can check this page for more info.

Mac Setup

If you have homebrew installed, update homebrew to latest using

brew update

Then install elixir using:

brew install elixir

Ubuntu/Debian setup

Add Erlang Solutions repo:

wget https://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb && sudo dpkg -i erlang-solutions_1.0_all.deb
sudo apt-get update

Install the Erlang/OTP platform and all of its applications:

sudo apt-get install esl-erlang

Install Elixir:

sudo apt-get install elixir

Other Linux Distros

If you have any other linux distribution, please visit this page to set up elixir on your local system.

Testing the setup

To check if elixir installed on your system correctly, Open your terminal and enter iex in it. It will open the interactive elixir shell like the following:

Erlang/OTP 19 [erts-8.0] [source-6dc93c1] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Interactive Elixir (1.3.1) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> 

You now have set up elixir successfully on your system and are ready to start learning Elixir!