erlang-abi-17.0 software package provides virtual package provided by erlang-base, erlang-base-hipe, you can install in your Debian 8 (Jessie) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install erlang-abi-17.0
erlang-abi-17.0 is installed in your system.
Make ensure the erlang-abi-17.0 package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep erlang-abi-17.0*
You will get with erlang-abi-17.0 package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Debian 8 jessie |
| Section | Virtual packages |
| Package | erlang-abi-17.0 |
| Version | |
| Description | virtual package provided by erlang-base, erlang-base-hipe |
| Sub Section | virtual |