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 (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)
• Debian Bookworm
• Debian Bullseye

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

This package is build and published to Ubuntu Launchpad:

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

Launchpad provides both amd64 and arm64 builds but only the latest published version (older releases are not available).

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.

#!/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://github.com/rabbitmq/signing-keys/releases/download/3.0/cloudsmith.rabbitmq-erlang.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.key | sudo gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg > /dev/null
## Community mirror of Cloudsmith: RabbitMQ repository
curl -1sLf https://github.com/rabbitmq/signing-keys/releases/download/3.0/cloudsmith.rabbitmq-server.9F4587F226208342.key | sudo gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.9F4587F226208342.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 [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg] https://ppa1.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang/deb/ubuntu noble main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg] https://ppa1.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang/deb/ubuntu noble main

# another mirror for redundancy
deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg] https://ppa2.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang/deb/ubuntu noble main
deb-src [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/rabbitmq.E495BB49CC4BBE5B.gpg] https://ppa2.rabbitmq.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-erlang/deb/ubuntu noble 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 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: this repository produces amd64 packages plus Launchpad builds an arm64 version whereas Debian and Ubuntu provides packages for many more architectures.

How the Packages are Produced

Packages are produced using a GitHub Actions workflow that is publicly available.

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) 2023-2024 Broadcom. "Broadcom" may refer to Broadcom, Inc or its affiliates.

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

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