Erlang installation on Ubuntu

Install the pre - requisite  for erlang installation by

apt-get -y install build-essential m4 libncurses5-dev libssh-dev unixodbc-dev libgmp3-dev libwxgtk2.8-dev libglu1-mesa-dev fop xsltproc default-jdk

Download the src code, untar it
and do
./cofigure
make
sudo make