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As the title says, I used sudo apt-get install erlang erlang-doc commmand in my terminal and it dicated me that it was installed successfully.

However I found nowhere to open the installed erlang program. I tried to search it on the top left button (where I can search the application through my computer or on the internet).. There is nothing found..

One guess from me is that I only installed the erlang working environemnt instead of the Erlang shell that I can actually test things on it like I used to do on windows. So maybe that is the reason I couldn't find it? I am not quite sure about that yet because I just newly turned into Linux.

Thanks in advance!

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The command to open erlang interpreter is:

erl

Also note that Ubuntu repositories often doesn't contain the latest versions of software. If you want to install the current version of erlang, you'll have to compile it from source as described in How to install erlang in Ubuntu 12.04? or here

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