Build Erlang R15B on a fresh Ubuntu box (tested on Ubuntu 11.10)

build-erlang-r15b.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Pull this file dowm, make it executable and run it with sudo
#  wget https://raw.github.com/gist/1603037/build-erlang-r15b.sh
#  chmod u+x build-erlang-r15b.sh
#  sudo ./build-erlang-r15b.sh

if [ $(id -u) != "0" ]; then
    echo "You must be the superuser to run this script" >&2
    exit 1
fi

apt-get update

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

mkdir -p /src/erlang
cd /src/erlang

if [ -e otp_src_R15B.tar.gz ]; then
    echo "Good! 'otp_src_R15B.tar.gz' already exists. Skipping download."
else
    wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R15B.tar.gz
fi

tar -xvzf otp_src_R15B.tar.gz
chmod -R 777 otp_src_R15B
cd otp_src_R15B
./configure
make
make install

exit 0