How to Install erlang-cowboy software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install erlang-cowboy software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

erlang-cowboy software package provides Cowboy is a small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang, you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install erlang-cowboy 

erlang-cowboy is installed in your system.

Make ensure the erlang-cowboy package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep erlang-cowboy *

You will get with erlang-cowboy package name, version, architecture and description in a table

erlang-cowboy package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Development
Package erlang-cowboy
Version 0.8.6+dfsg1-1
Description Cowboy is a small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang
Sub Section devel


See Also, How to uninstall or remove erlang-cowboy software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?