Revert Erlang OTP Version

Question

I have upgraded my ubuntu to latest version. This automatically updated my erlang version from 5.10.2 to 5.10.4 i.e OTP 16R01 to OTP 16R03

$ erl +V
Erlang (SMP,ASYNC_THREADS) (BEAM) emulator version 5.10.4

Here is my updated ubuntu details :

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release:    14.04
Codename:   trusty

Since the project is throwing error :

,{badarg,[{erlang,halt,[1,"Chicago Boss is not comptable with 16R03"],[]}

Is there any way to revert my otp version?

Answer 1

You will probably need to compile from source. Uninstall the current version Then compile and install from source Steps as follows:

Remove Erlang Completely

sudo apt-get purge erlang*

Update missings if required

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

Download requird OTP version:

wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R16B01.tar.gz 
tar -xvzf otp_src_R16B01.tar.gz 
sudo chmod -R 777 otp_src_R16B01 
cd otp_src_R16B01 
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install

And you will be ready :) cheers